Send messages to Slack from command line.
date | slacker -c slack_channel -t slack_tokenThe Slack token can be called from an enviroment variable, called SLACK_TOKEN.
You can set SLACK_TOKEN in your ~/.bashrc
# ~/.bashrc
export SLACK_TOKEN="slack_token_string"date | slacker -c slack_channelSend message to user:
date | slacker -u user_nameUpload file to channel:
date | slacker -c slack_channel -f image.pngAdd sender name and emoji avatar:
date | slacker -n SlackerBot -i :dancer:pip install slacker-cliYou can either generate test tokens or create a bot user and use its token.