Dartmouth College

Everything about me that fits on a slide:

Circulation Situation

"please returneth the digital camera posthaste"

There's an app for that

Last Mile Problem

The network can't be considered a success until it bridges the last mile

Autonotices isn't a success if you still have to check for and print some notices manually

A little more detail

Make sure the filenames are readily parseable

Iterate through the files in the directory

read the first six characters and use that to determine which circ desk sent the notice job (and therefore, which email address to send to)

convert the file to pdf

attach the file to an email

Proof of Concept

$ cat autoprintdata

bakcir;baker.circulation@dartmouth.edu
bakres;baker.reserves.desk@dartmouth.edu
dancir;dana.library.circulation@dartmouth.edu
felcir;feldberg.circulation@dartmouth.edu
joncir;jones.media.center@dartmouth.edu
krecir;kresge.library@dartmouth.edu
padcir;paddock.music.library@dartmouth.edu
joesys;joseph.montibello@dartmouth.edu

A text file with the codes and addresses in it

#!/bin/bash

# autoprintctl
#
# This script lists the filenames in the /iiidb/marc directory
# that include ".autonotices.p" in them and runs the script 
# "autoprintjob" against each. But first, email the autonotices# log so that it gets seen regularly.

text="Hi,\
\
The attached file is an autonotices log. This file is kept on the Millennium server, so you don't need to keep copies.\
\
If you have any questions or problems, please contact ...

echo $text | mutt -s Autonotices -a /iiidb/errlog/autonotices.log joseph.montibello@dartmouth.edu 

ls /iiidb/circ/autonotices | grep *.autonotices.p  | xargs 
/home/jmontibello/ap/autoprintjob 

So for each file, we're going to run the following code:

$ cat autoprintjob
#!/bin/bash
set -x
set -e

# autoprint
#
# This program accepts a series of filenames (separated by 
# spaces) from stdin, converts the text to pdf, and emails the
# resulting files to a user. This was designed to work with 
# autoprintctl, for notices found in iiidb/marc/ on olympia.

noticedir="/iiidb/circ/autonotices"
scriptdir="/home/jmontibello/ap"
email="global variable"

Set up variables

function getemail
#checks the first six characters of the input name against a 
#table of codes and the corresponding email addresses for the #circulation points that will get the notices.
{
 exec<"${scriptdir}/autoprintdata"
 inputcode=` echo $1 | cut -c 1-6 `
 while read line ; do
	checkcode=${line%;*}
	if [ "$inputcode" = "$checkcode" ]; then
		email=${line#*;}
	fi
	shift
	done
}

Function to get the email address if a given line matches an address

#in this loop, we convert each file to pdf and send it 
while (( "$#" )); do
	getemail $1
	# create output.ps from the III-generated print file
	enscript -q --margins=::10: -L 60 -B -p "${noticedir}/        output.ps" "${noticedir}/$1"
	
	# make a string named the same as $1, but with .pdf 
        extension
	outfile=${1/%.*/.pdf}
	#echo $outfile	

	# convert output.ps to $1.pdf
	ps2pdfwr ${noticedir}/output.ps ${noticedir}/$outfile

	# now, send the email.
	echo "This is a test of autoprintjob, sending copies to Joe." | mutt -a "${noticedir}/$outfile" -s "To = $email" joseph.montibello@dartmouth.edu
	echo "These are the printed autonotices." | mutt -a "${noticedir}/$outfile" -s "$outfile" "$email"

#clean up - for now, we'll move them.  Maybe later, clear them?
	mv ${noticedir}/output.ps ${noticedir}/sent/output.ps
	mv ${noticedir}/$outfile ${noticedir}/sent/$outfile
	mv ${noticedir}/$1 ${noticedir}/sent/$1  

	#now, move onto the next print file
	shift
done

Move the files out of the directory so they won't get mixed in the next time this runs

It worked, but...

Where are they now?

Conclusion

Another Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Questions?

http://www.rvl.io/joemontibello/autonotices-to-print/