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?

Made it better, hosting it on a new repository here