the giri of the day

tgotd.sh

#!/bin/bash

# installation procedure:
#
#$ aptitude install qdbm-util
#$ {
#	crontab -l
#	echo '1 0 * * 1-5 [email protected] ~/bin/tgotd.sh'
#} | crontab

file=${FILE:-~/etc/tgotd.dp}
email=${EMAIL:-dfanjul+giris@somewhere.com}

if ! [ -f "$file" ]; then
	dpmgr create "$file"
fi

function ikey() {
	if ! dpmgr get "$file" "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
		dpmgr put "$file" "$1" 0
	fi
}
ikey fulanito
ikey menganito

giri=`dpmgr list "$file" | sort -k2 -n | head -1 | cut -f1`

subject="The giri of today is $giri [EOM]"

echo "$subject"
mail -s "$subject" "$email" < /dev/zero 2>/dev/null && \
	dpmgr put "$file" "$giri" `date +%s`

I really prefer python:

import os, random

users = ['fulanito', 'menganito']

giri = random.choose(users)
os.system('mail -s "The giri of today is {} [EOM] < /dev/zero 2>/dev/null'.format(giri))

It is soooooo beautiful....