slack
https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.list/test
slack bot post
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#slack post method via chat.postMessage api
#@kevin token from https://api.slack.com/web
slack_token="xoxp-wwwwwwwww-xxxxxxxxxx-yyyyyyyyyyyy-zzzzzzzzz"
channel_id="G0LAW6GQR" #blah
#channel_id="C02UYL95L" #devnul
bot_name="Bat-Bot"
bot_emoji=":bat-signal:"
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message="Starting process on the following list of servers http://blah.com/$(basename $tmpserverlist)"
curl --data-urlencode "text=$message" -X POST "https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage?token=$slack_token&channel=$channel_id&username=$bot_name&icon_emoji=$bot_emoji&pretty=1"
message="Finished process on the following list of servers http://blah.com/$(basename $tmpfilepath)"
curl --data-urlencode "text=$message" -X POST "https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage?token=$slack_token&channel=$channel_id&username=$bot_name&icon_emoji=$bot_emoji&pretty=1"