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Today, bash_profile based task logger
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| # Create a log of what I did today at ~/.today | |
| # Example: | |
| # today I made a sandwich | |
| # today I ate a sandwich | |
| # cat ~/.today | |
| # 2018-07-16 16:02:12 I made a sandwich | |
| # 2018-07-16 15:59:28 I ate a sandwich | |
| today(){ | |
| # make sure the file exists | |
| touch ~/.today | |
| # get the current date/time | |
| DATE=`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'` | |
| # take all of the arguments to this function and assemble them with spaces | |
| str="$*" | |
| # prepend the content to the file | |
| echo -e "$DATE $str\n$(cat ~/.today)" > ~/.today | |
| } |
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Nice! I'm new to bash scripts, how do you get this to run? Do I source this file from bash_profile?