staff blogs

distributed.net staff keep (relatively) up-to-date logs of their activities in .plan files. These were traditionally available via finger, but we've put them on the web for easier consumption.

1998-09-25

nugget [25-Sep-1998 @ 05:00]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 05:00 +00:00

:: 25-Sep-1998 05:00 (Friday) ::

In a fit of idleness, I’ve coded a nifty little shell script, planman,
which automates the updating of my plan file for me. It’s really quite
slick. I run planman, which fires up my editor and allows me to type in
my little blurb for the plan file. Once I exit the editor, it ispells
the update, appends the timestamp, saves an archive copy in my
public_html/plan/ directory and attaches it to the live .plan file.
then, it trims off entries until the plan file is < 128 lines.

God I love unix.