add the possibility for output line transformaton - lchat - A line oriented chat front end for ii.
(HTM) git clone git://git.suckless.org/lchat
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(DIR) commit d03daa3fb2b41a1a969b9d4fdb0197cea471d4a0
(DIR) parent 3e18627b65da00ad5282946bd93e112aabb99491
(HTM) Author: Jan Klemkow <j.klemkow@wemelug.de>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 22:45:16 +0100
add the possibility for output line transformaton
Diffstat:
M lchat.1 | 5 +++++
M lchat.c | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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(DIR) diff --git a/lchat.1 b/lchat.1
@@ -79,6 +79,11 @@ Default path is the current working directory.
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It .bellmatch
contains regular expressions that controls bell ring on matching input.
+.It .filter
+If this file exists and has executable permissions, it is used as a filter
+program for the output lines.
+This program should read raw lines from stdin and outputs filtered or
+transformed lines to stdout.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr tail 1 ,
(DIR) diff --git a/lchat.c b/lchat.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
- * Copyright (c) 2015 Jan Klemkow <j.klemkow@wemelug.de>
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Jan Klemkow <j.klemkow@wemelug.de>
*
* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
* purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
/* open external source */
snprintf(tail_cmd, sizeof tail_cmd, "exec tail -n %zd -f %s",
history_len, out_file);
+
+ if (access(".filter", X_OK) == 0)
+ strlcat(tail_cmd, " | ./.filter", sizeof tail_cmd);
+
if ((tail_fh = popen(tail_cmd, "r")) == NULL)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "unable to open pipe to tail command");