Grab irssi notifications from a SSH server

fnotify.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Retrieve irssi notifications from fnotify script via SSH.
# See full blog post at
# http://dev.tritarget.org/2010/07/16/irssi-notifications-over-ssh.html

SSH_CMD="ssh -p 22 username@yourshell.org"

# Set this to what ever unique key generation you wish
RESET_KEY=`date | sha1sum | cut -d\  -f1`

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FIRST_RUN=yes
$SSH_CMD -n \
    "tail -n10 .irssi/fnotify ; echo 'reset $RESET_KEY' > .irssi/fnotify ; tail -f .irssi/fnotify" \
    | while read heading message; do
        if [ "x$FIRST_RUN$heading" == "xyesreset" ]; then
            if [ "x$message" == "x$RESET_KEY" ]; then
                FIRST_RUN=no
            fi
        elif [ "x$FIRST_RUN$heading" == "xnoRequestURLBrowse" ]; then
            open "$message"
        else
            growlnotify -n Irssi -a Terminal -m "$message" "$heading"
        fi
    done