


    one feature of all modern browsers, is that while you download a file 
    they let you choose to open the file or just save it. this is very 
    helpful specially when you want to read/listen/view something "on the 
    fly" the moment you download it.
    
    i have made this request in the past, publicly... i think from here, 
    but i don't suppose that will see it embedded, very soon in any telnet 
    client. so i made my own version... kinda... that resembles this 
    functionality.
    
    first of all... it's for linux! windows users you can keep reading the 
    other articles in here :p second, you have to install the packages 
    "zenity" and "inotify-tools". if you don't know how... you are also 
    outta here... :p
    
    third... copy/paste the following script and make it executable. you 
    have to start this script, every time you run your telnet client and 
    let it run in the background. my favorite client is Netrunner, so i 
    made another script to launch both Netrunner and the "watch" script. 
    you can find it in the bottom.
    
    you must setup your client to download files in the same directory the 
    "watchdir" script does. you can configure the watchdir script with an 
    editor to do that. you can also change other things.
    
    as you can see the watchdir script detects newly created files in the 
    specified directory. it gets the extension of that file and if it 
    matches one of our categories (ansi, music, text, archive) executes 
    the specified program to view/listen the file. it uses the zenity 
    dialogs to ask you first, if you want to launch the viewer, in case 
    you don't.
    
    it's a very cool feature to add and at least, personally, it helps me 
    a lot while visiting BBSes. hope you like it and use it a lot.


---- watchdir.sh --------------------------------------------------------    
#!/bin/bash

musictype="MOD;S3M;IT;XM"
ansitype="ANS;ASC;DIZ"
texttype="TXT;DOC"
archives="ZIP;RAR;7Z;TAR"
musicplayer="audacious"
ansiviewer="xansiviewer"
zipviewer="file-roller"
textviewer="geany"
$downloaddir="/home/user/Downloads"

inotifywait -m $downloaddir -e create -e moved_to | 
  while read filepath action file; do
    #echo "The file '$file' appeared in directory '$filepath' via '$action'"
    # do something with the file
    extension="${file##*.}"
    filename="${file%.*}"
    ext="${extension^^}"
    if grep -q "$ext" <<<"$musictype"; then
      zenity --question --text "Play file: $file ?"
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then
        nohup $musicplayer "$filepath$file" &
      fi
    fi
    if grep -q "$ext" <<<"$ansitype"; then
      zenity --question --text "View file: $file ?"
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then
        nohup $ansiviewer "$filepath$file" &
      fi
    fi
    if grep -q "$ext" <<<"$archives"; then
      zenity --question --text "View file: $file ?"
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then
        nohup $zipviewer "$filepath$file" &
      fi
    fi
    if grep -q "$ext" <<<"$texttype"; then
      zenity --question --text "View file: $file ?"
      if [ $? = 0 ]; then
        nohup $textviewer "$filepath$file" &
      fi
    fi
  done
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---- netrunner.sh -------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
pcd=$(pwd)
/home/user/scripts/watch_bbs_dir.sh &
cd /home/user/bin/netrunner
./netrunner
cd "$pcd"
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