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#!/bin/bash
# This is a wrapper script to attach several files to an email in Thunderbird.
# Written by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <sergey@elementaryos.org>
# License: 3-clause BSD
# Thunderbird is very picky about the file paths and will just hang in case it
# doesn't like something.
# If it does, I'm probably doing something slightly wrong here.
#TODO: define a Gettext domain
# Disable history substitution on "!" symbols so we can have them in strings
set +H
if [ -z "$1" ] || [ "$1" = '-h' ] || [ "$1" = '--help' ]; then
echo $"Usage: $0 /path/to/file [/path/to/another/file...]
Relative paths are also supported, but files with comma in the name are NOT."
exit 1 # so that calling without parameters is counted as a failure
fi
while [ -n "$1" ]; do
# Check if the file exists; if not, complain and exclude the file.
# Thunderbird will hang if given a nonexistent file.
if [ -e "$1" ]; then
if ! ( echo "$1" | grep -q ',' ); then
FILES="$FILES,$1"
else
comma_files="$comma_files
$1"
fi
else
nonexistent_files="$nonexistent_files
$1"
fi
shift
done
# Remove the commas in the beginning and end of file list,
# otherwise Thunderbird will hang.
FILES=${FILES%,}
FILES=${FILES#,}
# Error reporting
if [ -n "$comma_files" ]; then
ERRORS="$ERRORS
"$"Thunderbird cannot handle files with commas in the name.
These files were not attached: $comma_files"
fi
if [ -n "$nonexistent_files" ]; then
ERRORS="$ERRORS
"$"These files do not seem to exist and were ignored: $nonexistent_files"
fi
ERRORS=${ERRORS#'
'} # Remove the \n in the beginning of the error list, it's prettier that way
if [ -n "$FILES" ]; then
if [ -n "$ERRORS" ]; then
notify-send --icon=thunderbird $"Some files were not attached" "$ERRORS"
fi
# Finally execute Thunderbird and exit with its exit code
thunderbird -compose "attachment='${FILES}'"
else
if [ -n "$ERRORS" ]; then
notify-send --icon=thunderbird $"No files were attached!" "$ERRORS"
fi
exit 1
fi
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