Some skripts for system integration

[sphh]

This is not an issue as such…

Thank you for taking this under your wing!! I have some scripts on my computer to start msgviewer back from the time, when msgviewer was only available on sourceforge. You might be interested in them. I cannot remember where I got them from (they are definitely not mine ;-) )

Here we go:
cat /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/msgviewer:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
  DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
  SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
  [[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
done
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"

exec java -jar ${DIR}/msgviewer.jar "$@"

cat /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/msg2eml:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
  DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
  SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
  [[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
done
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"

exec java -jar ${DIR}/msgviewer.jar -msg2eml "$@"

cat /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/msg2mbox:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
while [ -h "$SOURCE" ]; do # resolve $SOURCE until the file is no longer a symlink
  DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"
  SOURCE="$(readlink "$SOURCE")"
  [[ $SOURCE != /* ]] && SOURCE="$DIR/$SOURCE" # if $SOURCE was a relative symlink, we need to resolve it relative to the path where the symlink file was located
done
DIR="$( cd -P "$( dirname "$SOURCE" )" && pwd )"

exec java -jar ${DIR}/msgviewer.jar -msg2mbox "$@"

My directory layout on Linux is:

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/
lrwxrwxrwx /usr/local/bin/msgviewer -> ../share/MSGViewer/msgviewer
lrwxrwxrwx /usr/local/bin/msg2eml -> ../share/MSGViewer/msg2eml
lrwxrwxrwx /usr/local/bin/msg2mbox -> ../share/MSGViewer/msg2mbox
$ ls -l /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/
-rw-r--r-- /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/icon.png
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/msg2eml
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/msg2mbox
-rwxr-xr-x /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/msgviewer
-rw-r--r-- /usr/local/share/MSGViewer/msgviewer.jar

Now I can call any of the three commands msgviewer, msg2eml and msg2mbox! Very hand indeed. (Mind you, I only have tested the msgviewer skript with your new github versions …)

BTW I also have a msgviewer.desktop file, to get the viewer into the application menu.
cat /usr/local/share/applications/msgviewer.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=MSGViewer
Comment=
Exec=/usr/local/bin/msgviewer
Icon=/usr/local/share/msgviewer/icon.png
Categories=Application
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=0

Perhaps this can help persons like #1 to install that beast!

Please feel free to include it, wherever you think it is appropriate.

[lolo101]

Hi @sphh and thanks for your suggestion.

Bash scripts & .desktop files are system-dependant whereas MsgViewer is intended to run on any system. However we could provide some installers for some systems as release assets.

[sphh]

Yes, they are system dependent! That's why this is just a basic suggestion for a Linux system and an idea to get started. I am sure that there are many improvements, e.g. opening a message in msgviewer from a file manager …