[Remind-Fans] controlling the outpur of -s

[Andrew Ho]

tsr.offentlig at tsr.se <tsr.offentlig at tsr.se> wrote [2010-06-22 14:09 +0200]:
>I've just discovered remind and I think I've finnaly managed to set 
>up my national holidays (will post on 43folders-wiki soon)

Last time I tried, the 43folders wiki wasn't letting me create an 
account.  If we really have become unable to update that wiki, perhaps 
we should think about setting up another one (I have some scripts that 
might be of interest to British remind users).

>2) The output is almost perfect (I want to incorporate the
>wekk-nr-thing I saw in the mail archive) but I wonder if I can reformat
>it so that:
>2010/06/22 * peradm 60 900 15:00-16:00 appointment-text-consorship
>becomes:
>Tue 2010-06-22 15:00-16:00 [peradm]  appointment-text-consorship Wen 

You could this with (g)awk quite easily -- it's what I use to 
manipulate remind.  Just pipe the output through:

#!/usr/bin/gawk -f

{
	date = strftime("%a %Y-%m-%d", mktime(gensub(/\//, " ", "g", $1) " 00 00 00"))
	time = $6
	tag = ($3 == "*") ? "*" : "[" $3 "]"
	body = substr($0, length($1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6) + 7)
	printf "%s %-11s %-8s  %s\n", date, time, tag, body
}

YMMV; you may want to tweak that script as it's just what I hacked up 
and may not be robust enough.

Regards,
Andrew