Articles tagged “zsh”

Simple Todo

Jelly in the archlinux irc channel asked for suggestions for a cli todo app, and I offered this to him on a whim. As it turns out, it’s actually pretty damn useful.

todo()
{
  if [ -z $1 ]; then
    cat $HOME/.todo
    return
  fi

  case $1 in
    "add")
      echo $2 >> $HOME/.todo
    ;;
    "del")
      todo=$(< $HOME/.todo | sed 's/'$2'//;tx;p;:x;d')
      echo $todo > $HOME/.todo
    ;;
  esac
}

You can also find this in my zshrc on github.

Edit: rich_o on the archlinux bbs posted a modification to this which allows you to delete tasks by number and search for a task. I’ve began using this mod instead:

todo()
{
  if [ -z $1 ]; then
    awk '{ i += 1; print i": "$0 }' $HOME/.todo
    return
  fi

  case $1 in
    "add")
      echo $2 >> $HOME/.todo
    ;;
    "del")
      todo=$(< $HOME/.todo | sed "$2"'d')
      echo $todo > $HOME/.todo
    ;;
    "search")
      grep -ni --color=never $2 $HOME/.todo | sed -e 's/:/: /'
    ;;
  esac
}

Published on July 07, 2009 Comments