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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Run a script based on the subject line of the email Post 302305106 by satekn on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 02:53:51 AM
Old 04-08-2009
Question Run a script based on the subject line of the email
Hi,
I need help in running a script that would pull info from an email subject line and run a script (foo.sh). I'm pretty sure after a bit of googling that this is possible in several ways. but none was pretty clear on how to accomplish it. The part that I really need help with is getting the info from the email subject and pass it to the script as parameter. I am also considering perl as an option and would use perl if advised.

Basically i get emails with a standard subject line saying:

from: boss@email.com
Sub: DO this job=job1 copies=copy1

and i am planning to create a script dojob.sh job1 copy1.

i am typically looking for some way to accomplish this. i am pretty much new to unix (i am now in charge of some processes in HP-unx and AIX). I need to get these done in order to save my job. Typically whoever was in this position before were fired failing to accomplish this. I hope somebody will help me save my job here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
 

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rt-email-group-admin-4

rt-email-group-admin(8) 				     Request Tracker Reference					   rt-email-group-admin(8)

NAME

       rt-email-group-admin - Command line tool for administrating NotifyGroup actions

SYNOPSIS

	   rt-email-group-admin --list
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify foo team' --group Foo
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify foo team as comment' --comment --group Foo
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify group Foo and Bar' --group Foo --group Bar
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify user foo@bar.com' --user foo@bar.com
	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify VIPs' --user vip1@bar.com
	   rt-email-group-admin --add 'Notify VIPs' --user vip2@bar.com --group vip1 --user vip3@foo.com
	   rt-email-group-admin --rename 'Notify VIPs' --newname 'Inform VIPs'
	   rt-email-group-admin --switch 'Notify VIPs'
	   rt-email-group-admin --delete 'Notify user foo@bar.com'

DESCRIPTION

       This script list, create, modify or delete scrip actions in the RT DB. Once you've created an action you can use it in a scrip.

       For example you can create the following action using this script:

	   rt-email-group-admin --create 'Notify developers' --group 'Development Team'

       Then you can add the followoing scrip to your Bugs queue:

	   Condition: On Create
	   Action:    Notify developers
	   Template:  Transaction
	   Stage:     TransactionCreate

       Your development team will be notified on every new ticket in the queue.

USAGE

       rt-email-group-admin --COMMAND ARGS

COMMANDS

   list
       Lists actions and its descriptions.

   create NAME [--comment] [--group GNAME] [--user UNAME]
       Creates new action with NAME and adds users and/or groups to its recipient list. Would be notify as comment if --comment specified.

   add NAME [--group GNAME] [--user UNAME]
       Adds groups and/or users to recipients of the action NAME.

   delete NAME
       Deletes action NAME if scrips doesn't use it.

   switch NAME
       Switch action NAME from notify as correspondence to comment and back.

   rename NAME --newname NEWNAME
       Renames action NAME to NEWNAME.

   NOTES
       If command has option --group or --user then you can use it more then once, if other is not specified.

AUTHOR

       Ruslan U. Zakirov <ruz@bestpractical.com>

SEE ALSO

       RT::Action::NotifyGroup, RT::Action::NotifyGroupAsComment

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