gmail

#!/bin/sh
set -euf -o pipefail

##
# Check your unread gmail from the command line.
#
# Based on http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse
#
# For some reason sed gets stuck on OS X, so here's a Perl version for the Mac:
#
#     ... | perl -pe 's/^<title>(.*)<\/title>.*<name>(.*)<\/name>.*$/$2 - $1/'
#
# Contact: Joel Parker Henderson (joel@joelparkerhenderson.com)
# License: GPL
# Updated: 2015-01-25
##

username=`cat ~/.gmail-username`
password=`cat ~/.gmail-password`
curl -u $username:$password --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | tr -d '\n' | awk -F '<entry>' '{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}' | sed -n "s/<title>\(.*\)<\/title.*name>\(.*\)<\/name>.*/\2 - \1/p"