#!/bin/sh # agenda--Scans through the user's .agenda file to see if there # are matches for the current or next day. agendafile="$HOME/.agenda" checkDate() { # Create the possible default values that'll match today. weekday=$1 day=$2 month=$3 year=$4 format1="$weekday" format2="$day$month" format3="$day$month$year" # And step through the file comparing dates... IFS="|" # The reads will naturally split at the IFS. echo "On the agenda for today:" while read date description ; do if [ "$date" = "$format1" -o "$date" = "$format2" -o \ "$date" = "$format3" ] then echo " $description" fi done < $agendafile } if [ ! -e $agendafile ] ; then echo "$0: You don't seem to have an .agenda file. " >&2 echo "To remedy this, please use 'addagenda' to add events" >&2 exit 1 fi # Now let's get today's date... eval $(date '+weekday="%a" month="%b" day="%e" year="%G"') day="$(echo $day|sed 's/ //g')" # Remove possible leading space. checkDate $weekday $day $month $year exit 0