[SOLVED] Bash Script checking for mail

Question

I have come up with this forsaken script...
#!/bin/bash
while :
do
NEWMAIL=$(curl -su "You'd wish." https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom | grep fullcount | cut -d ">" -f 2 | cut -d "<" -f 1)
echo $NEWMAIL
notify-send "Gmail" "You have $NEWMAIL new mails!"
sleep 10s
done
It does get the number of new mails perfectly fine - I'm sure there is a better method with cut... -, and it echos the number, but notify-send does not seem to work. From what I've read I need to set the environmental variable or something like that. Yeah, no clue. Any hint is appreciated.
Last edited by ThunderRush (2013-02-05 14:38:15)

Answer 1

I tried that aesiris, of course with some gnome things, but it did not work either.
And for jason: It's okay, thank you again for your help.
I will see what else I can do, and will post a solution if I find one - which I doubt.
What other alternatives to notify-send are there? Not a whole popup, but something more subtle?
#EDIT
As always, my own stupidity.
Since I had absolutely no right set on the file, since the password is there in clear text, ist had the Permissions 111.
But - gnome did not belong to my root.
ps aux | grep gnome
And I always started it as sudo, as root. So I changed the ownership to my user...
sudo chown thunderuser gmailcheck
and set the rights to 500. So I can execute and read it.
And it finally worked. Thanks again.
Last edited by ThunderRush (2013-02-05 14:37:53)