bdayscript

Purpose

I wanted to create a quick shell script that can be called either via cron or inside a .bashrc or .zshrc.

The corresponding .csv files should be placed inside the ~/.bdayscript/ directory. The sed-Commands are tailored to read min-one-digit day and month numbers, like e.g. 2/4/00.

Setup

1. Place the bdayscript.sh in a nice and warm place, e.g. ~/scripts/ or something.
2. Create a ~/.bdayscript/ directory.
3. Create a csv "database" in the following form:

Surname;Name;M(M)/D(D)/YY
Doe;John;12/24/85

4. Insert a call to the script sinside your .bashrc or .zshrc file. Alternatively you can also create a similar cronjob.

bash ~/scripts/bdayscript.sh

5. Never forget a birthday again.

To-Do

• Create a setup agent to manage birthdays in the database.
• Add multi-language support.

Authors

• EightSQ - all by himself - https://electronvo.lt

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.