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-rw-r--r--README16
-rw-r--r--blasms.c4
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index cc61cdf..049bccd 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ Usage: blasms sender-number send-date
SMS content should be passed using stdin.
blasms.conf is the configuration file and should be in the format:
- default SYSTEM COMMANDS
- CMD1 SYSTEM COMMANDS
- CMD2 SYSTEM COMMANDS
+ default SYSTEMCOMMANDS
+ CMD1 SYSTEMCOMMANDS
+ CMD2 SYSTEMCOMMANDS
etc.
Where SYSTEM COMMANDS can be any command to be executed. The line starting
@@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ are available, allowing for text replacement. The macros available are:
%n - replaced with the sender-number
%d - replaced with the send-date
%s - replaced with the SMS content
- %P - attempts to replace the second word in the SMS with a destination number\n"
- from phonebook.conf - SMS not processed if entry not found\n"
+ %P - attempts to replace the second word in the SMS with a destination number
+ from phonebook.conf - SMS not processed if entry not found
+ %M - intepret the second word (i.e. after the command) of the SMS
+ as FILENAME, attempt to open the file "pending/FILENAME", treating
+ the first word of it as a number, attempting to look up its name,
+ and insert a colon between it and the rest of the file.
An example blasms.conf might be:
default echo \"SMS from %N at %d: %s\"
@@ -32,7 +36,7 @@ Sender names are looked up in phonebook.conf, which should be in the format:
An example phonebook.conf might be:
+447777123456 John
- +447713987654 Bill
+ +447713987654 Bill Billy
With a default gnokii (at least with gnokii-0.6.29) apostrophes (') will be
escaped. Removing this behaviour is desirble to blasms and does not cause
diff --git a/blasms.c b/blasms.c
index 08abcac..273002f 100644
--- a/blasms.c
+++ b/blasms.c
@@ -273,6 +273,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
" %%s - replaced with the SMS content\n"
" %%P - attempts to replace the second word in the SMS with a destination number\n"
" from phonebook.conf - SMS not processed if entry not found\n"
+ " %%M - intepret the second word (i.e. after the command) of the SMS\n"
+ " as FILENAME, attempt to open the file \"pending/FILENAME\", treating\n"
+ " the first word of it as a number, attempting to look up its name,\n"
+ " and insert a colon between it and the rest of the file.\n"
"\n"
"An example blasms.conf might be:\n"
" default echo \\\"SMS from %%N at %%d: %%s\\\"\n"