#14 Timetable for auctions

[Rolf]

Hi,

this is very low prio but it would be nice if esniper
included a tool to list auctions with a timeline. It
might suffice to just list them chronologically and
print out the ending time together with current price
and my max price.

I am not sure if snipe can supposedly do this but snipe
does nothing for me but list auction numbers. That
info I can get of course from the sniper files alone.

Regards

Rolf

[Anonymous]

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How close is the -i option to what you want? I think all
that is missing is sorting by end time.

[Rolf]

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As I said, snipe does not do anything for me that ps -f does
not do as well.

$ snipe
Currently active snipes:
leggewie 4661 6861 0 01:32 pts/1 00:00:01 esniper
notebook.esn

$ ls -l notebook.esn
-rw-r--r-- 1 leggewie leggewie 571 Jul 26 00:34 notebook.esn

$ snipe -i notebook.esn
Cannot find info on notebook.esn

leggewie@Pfaffe:~$ snipe -i ./notebook.esn
ls: /home/leggewie/.snipe/*.txt: No such file or directory
Cannot find info on ./notebook.esn

$ snipe -I 4661
Currently active snipes:
leggewie 6941 1 0 Jul23 pts/1 00:00:02 esniper ram.esn
leggewie 22744 6861 0 Jul24 pts/1 00:00:03 esniper
toner.esn
leggewie 30183 6861 0 Jul25 pts/1 00:00:00 esniper
drucker.esn
leggewie 4661 6861 0 01:32 pts/1 00:00:01 esniper
notebook.esn

This is not working.

[Anonymous]

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First of all, I meant esniper -i. Try it.

Second, I'm curious what is going on with your use of snipe.
It works for me. A quick guess -- you started esniper by
itself instead of starting it through snipe, i.e. you did:

$ esniper notebook.esn &
$ snipe -i notebook.esn

instead of:

$ snipe notebook.esn
$ snipe -i notebook.esn

[Rolf]

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It does not matter whether I try -i, -I or whatever. It
plainly will not work. And yes, I use esniper to start my
auctions not snipe itself. I'll try snipe for starting an
auction one of these days. Does it call esniper internally
so that whenever I update esniper I get the benefit?

[Rolf]

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Just tried it out about a minute ago. snipe calls ksh which
is not on my system. I see that snipe is just a simple
shell script. Can I just replace every occurence of ksh
with sh or bash?

[Anonymous]

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A few comments.

1. Try esniper -i <auction file>. Really. It has nothing
to do with snipe, the shell script. Trust me on this.

2. snipe is a shell script, but it needs to call ksh for a
little hack (to get the PID of the subshell). bash should
work OK, too. sh will not work (unless it is a synonym for
bash, which isn't true on all systems). I updated the
script to have it automatically figure out if bash or ksh
should be called -- it should show up on public CVS within a
day.

3. If you use esniper directly, you won't have things setup
correctly for snipe -i (or -k) to work.

[Rolf]

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"esniper -i" and sorting by end time, possibly enhanced with some grep, would be sufficient, I guess.