MastodonMegafono/megafono_bot.sh

#!/bin/bash

#
# CONFIGURATION
#

# Interval between two consecutive posts
FLOOR_HOUR_SLEEP_INTERVAL=5
CEILING_HOUR_SLEEP_INTERVAL=19

# File containing the toots to post
DATA_FILE=megafono.txt

#
# CONFIGURATION END
#

random_time_on_range(){
    FLOOR=$1
    CEILING=$2
    RANGE=$(($CEILING-$FLOOR+1));
    #echo "You will generate a random number between $FLOOR and $CEILING (both inclusive). There are $RANGE possible numbers!"
    RESULT=$RANDOM;
    #echo "We just generated the random number $RESULT, which might not be in the range we want";
    let "RESULT %= $RANGE";
    RESULT=$(($RESULT+$FLOOR));
    echo $RESULT;
}


while :
do
	# Last line should be empty, so we dont need an additional read here
	# after the while loop
	while read line 
	do
		#eval ./toot.sh $line
		SLEEP_TOOT=$(random_time_on_range $FLOOR_HOUR_SLEEP_INTERVAL $CEILING_HOUR_SLEEP_INTERVAL)
		sleep $SLEEP_TOOT"h"
	done < ${DATA_FILE}

done