#!/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