showface

John Kodis (kodis@jagunet.com)
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:53:29 -0500

I put the attached little script together to provide an easy way to
decode and view the X-Face: attachments that are frequently included
in e-mail headers. Now I can just pipe an X-Face-equiped mail message
into the showface script to see who sent me e-mail. The showface
script will extract the first X-Face record read from stdin, decode
it, and display the result using xv if run with X available, or using
pbmtoascii if run on a character cell terminal.

Use, share, and enjoy.

-- John Kodis.

#! /bin/sh

if [ -z $VIEWER ]; then
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
VIEWER=pbmtoascii
else
VIEWER='xv -expand 2 -smooth -'
fi
fi

( echo '/* Format_version=1, Valid_bits_per_item=16,'
echo ' Width=48, Height=48, Depth=1 */'
perl -n -e '!$& &&
/^X-Face:/i .. !(/^X-Face:/i && print $'\'' or /^\s/ && print)' |
uncompface -
) | icontopbm | $VIEWER