Shell script that uses ruby to get a humanized version of a long date string. Copies to your clipboard and echoes to the command line. NOTE: Uses pbcopy to copy to the clipboard, which is only available on OSX. From terminal, run "dayahead 0" to get today

dayahead.sh

function dayahead() {
  DAYSTRING=`ruby -e "require \"time\"; require \"date\"; puts Time.parse((Date.today + $1).to_s).strftime(\"%A, %B %d, %Y\")"`
  echo -n $DAYSTRING | pbcopy
  echo $DAYSTRING
}