out of band ssh-chat ding watcher lol

watch-sshchat.md

First make a fifo

$ export fifopath=$PWD/chat.fifo
$ mkfifo "$fifopath"

Then start reading from the fifo and looking for the ^G ding escape code.

cat -u -e "$fifopath" | while read line; do
  if echo "$line" | grep -q '\^G'; then
    echo "DING: $line"  # <- Replace this with your fav notify command
  fi
done

Make sure you start reading the fifo before you start writing to it.

Now join ssh-chat and fork the output into our fifo (in a different terminal):

$ ssh -t chat.shazow.net | tee -a "$fifopath"  # Don't forget to set the $fifopath

You might be able to achieve the same thing inline (without using a separate watcher process and a fifo), but maybe this way it's more fun?

I tried this and it's working.

function ssh_chat(){
    mkfifo SSH
    cat -u -e SSH | while read line; do
    if echo "$line" | grep -q '\^G'; then
        notify-send "$line"
    fi
    done &
    ssh $1@chat.shazow.net | tee SSH
}

@sleibrock Careful doing that, you'll end up with a bunch of zombie processes after you're done ssh'ing.

Now how will we get rid of the garbage

Made it better, hosting it on a new repository here