#! /bin/sh set -e # Based on: # http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2007/01/thls-irssi-notification-script.html FNOTIFY="$HOME/.irssi/fnotify" TAIL= cleanup () { rm -f "$FNOTIFY" if [ "$TAIL" ]; then kill "$TAIL" fi } trap cleanup EXIT HUP INT QUIT PIPE TERM tail -n 10 "$FNOTIFY" 2>/dev/null || true > "$FNOTIFY" tail -f "$FNOTIFY" & TAIL="$!" while :; do echo . sleep 5 done