How to read msg-id and delete message after reading

[hollysheep]

I use telegram-cli to send commands from my Android to my raspberry pi. Because im not familiar with lua i send the message to a shell script and use a lot of if-else to choose what to do with the message. Sometimes it would be a good idea to delete the message directly after reading the message and Sendung it to my shell script. I know i have to Start telegram-cli with Option -N and can delete the message with delete_msg .

But i cant include this command in my shell script because the msg-id isn't sent to the shell script. Only the message Text is sent. How can i do this?

[Paulchen232]

I think you can in lua the last message delete with: delete_msg(msg.id, ok_cb, false)

[hollysheep]

I want to do this with my shell script. I have this line in my actions.lua

os.execute("/home/pi/.telegram-cli-script " .. msg.text)

This sends the message Text to the shell script. In the shell script i use some if-else-commands to decide what to do. In some chases i want to delete the message and for that i need the id. I can send the message id to the script when i replace msg.text with msg. id in actions.lua. but how can i send both, the Text ans the id?

The most if-commands will ignore the id, but some of then will use it together with the Text.

[Paulchen232]

What you need to decide if you want delete the message. Because in shell script I think it is bad to delete. But if you can get the the big number (msg.id) in the shell then you can delete the message with -e 'delete_msg <big number>' in the shell.

[Paulchen232]

With .. you can add a variable.

[hollysheep]

I tried this

os.execute("/home/pi/.telegram-cli-script " .. msg.text .. msg.id)

but then i only get the id and not the message text.

[Paulchen232]

OK, write in the line before "os.execute(.." print("*"..msg.text.."*") to see in telegram-cli the text.

[Paulchen232]

I have change my answer.

[Paulchen232]

I think there is anything in the shell wrong.

[Paulchen232]

I have test it. And it work. os.execute("/home/pi/tg/telegram-cli-script " .. msg.text .. " " .. msg.id) telegram-cli-script: #!/bin/bash echo $1 $2 you see it in telegram-cli. os.execute: with and without .. " "

[Paulchen232]

(The person who opened this issue have delete two comments from him) No, that is a hex-number. A | ist a "pipe". Look in Google or startpage.com what that in the shell mean.

[Paulchen232]

If you over with this issues close it.