Best of Bash 4
Recently I was looking for a digital punch card. Of course, I could just use the w
command, subtract my breaks and that’s that at the end of the day. But there’s always something not work related which needs to be remembered and after all: I am lazy.
So, I installed sp.app.myWorkClock on my phone, which has a nice widget to literally punch (touch) in and out. The output of my Work Clock is a SQLite3 database. To use it in bash I need to do sudo apt-get install sqlite3
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The export_punches.sh
looks like this (via SO):
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This redirects basically everything inbetween the exclamation marks to the sqlite3 program. It turns headers on, sets CSV mode, defines the output file and states a SQL command which will output the data the way I need it (company time cards count and add hours in decimal mode). And that’s that.