write your buddies a random message. nudge works by checking who's online (via who), filtering it to users you specify, and sending each one of them a randomly selected message (via write) from an array of messages you specify.

NOTE: this script is developed in an envrionment with RHEL 7.2 and bash 4.2.46. It should work in other environments, but your mileage may vary.

To execute, simply do /path/to/nudge.

You'll want to configure the $users variable to specify the usernames that you're looking to message. Since it's being piped directly to grep you'll want to delimit them with pipes (|) for a proper regex.

The messages being sent can be configured in the $phrases variable.

If you'd like to be extra persistent and annoying you can setup the script to run periodically as a cronjob.

Could this be improved? Fork the repo, commit your changes, and send a pull request my way.

Shoutout to @pjbirr and @galordmtu for helping with testing and such.

Licensed under MIT License.