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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting script to pull info from my email? Post 302305420 by xinix on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 11:19:44 PM
Old 04-09-2009
Thanks for some of the comments.
Quote:
Why are you reversing the output of ls and then getting the last line instead of just getting the first?
Basically it was the first working code I found online. Your suggestion is better.

Quote:
Why seven calls to awk instead of one?
Each one gets a unique piece of info that is used for a specific line in the echo command. If there's a single call to that can do it that would be nice. But I just started learning awk stuff a week ago so I'm using what I can get to work for me (even if it might be a bit barbaric).

Basically:
Code:
PLACE=$(awk '/Place                   :/ {print $3,$4,$5,$6,$7}' $NEWEST)

This command gets me the name of the place. I need to know this first because some of the important information is on a line that starts with that name.

Code:
DATE=$(awk "/^$PLACE/ "' {print $(NF-2)}' $NEWEST)

This line gets the mm/dd/yy date from the source file and another call gets the start hour.
This needs to be converted to a yyyymmdd format and time +5 hours, which is done by this:
Code:
DTSTART=$(date --date "$DATE $STIME +5 hours" +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")

This is repeated to get the finish time.
I'm sure I could consolidate some of these commads. Maybe once I'm a little more experienced.

The "\n\" are not needed.

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How do you add an entry to your calendar?
The calendar uses a "filename.ics" file (basically an ical file) that several calendar apps seem to understand. This script adds the block of lines that make up an event entry just before the last line which closes the file.
the block looks something like this:

Code:
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20090504170000
DTEND:20090504203000
DSTAMP:20090409021153
UID:34533016-Sync-Script
CLASS:PRIVATE
CREATED:20090409021153
DESCRIPTION:Descripion   
LAST-MODIFIED:20090409021153
LOCATION:Name of Place 
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Name of Person
TRANSP:OPAQUE
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:This is an event reminder
TRIGGER:-P0DT0H30M0S
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT

 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

calendar

CALENDAR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CALENDAR(1)

NAME

       calendar - reminder service

SYNOPSIS

       calendar [ - ]

DESCRIPTION

       Calendar consults the file `calendar' in the current directory and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date anywhere in the
       line.  Most reasonable month-day dates such as `Dec. 7,' `december 7,' `12/7,' etc., are recognized, but not `7 December'  or  `7/12'.	If
       you give the month as ``*'' with a date, i.e. ``* 1'', that day in any month will do.  On weekends `tomorrow' extends through Monday.

       When  an argument is present, calendar does its job for every user who has a file `calendar' in his login directory and sends him any posi-
       tive results by mail(1).  Normally this is done daily in the wee hours under control of cron(8).

       The file `calendar' is first run through the ``C'' preprocessor, /lib/cpp, to include any other calendar files  specified  with	the  usual
       ``#include'' syntax.  Included calendars will usually be shared by all users, maintained and documented by the local administration.

FILES

       calendar
       /usr/libexec/calendar to figure out today's and tomorrow's dates
       /etc/passwd
       /tmp/cal*
       /lib/cpp, egrep, sed, mail as subprocesses

SEE ALSO

       at(1), cron(8), mail(1)

BUGS

       Calendar's extended idea of `tomorrow' doesn't account for holidays.

7th Edition							 October 21, 1996						       CALENDAR(1)
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