This is my first post on Perl Monks in the 19 months I've been lurking. The following is a cheap hack, more of a macro than a script, but I use it regularly. It's a handy doo-dad that I wrote in about 5 minutes that saves me a couple minutes of typing everytime I update my journal.

This is for Linux+Emacs. The script invokes Emacs with today's date in YYYYMMDD.blg format, and when Emacs closes (after you presumably save your new file) prompts you to archive all current entries, and delete all but the most recent 5.

I'm not doing any error checks, so you could potentially lose data if the copy fails and the unlink succeeds.

#!/usr/bin/perl

chomp (my $d=`date +%Y%m%d`);
$d.='.blg';
system "emacs -nw $d";
print "Update archive?  :";
$d=<>;
if($d=~/^y/i)   {
    $d=`cp *.blg blgarchive`;
    chomp (my @d=sort `ls *.blg`);
    # Delete all but the last 5 entries
    for(0..$#d-5){$d=unlink $d[$_];print "$d[$_] : $d\n";}
}

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In reply to Add/update daily journal (emacs/linux) by delirium

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