#!/bin/sh clocks="$HOME"/sync/share/clocks.csv # Create csv file with headers if not exist [ -f "$clocks" ] || printf 'start,end,message\n' > "$clocks" if [ "$1" = "-h" ] then >&2 cat <&2 printf ' > ' message="$(head -n 1)" [ "$message" ] || exit 1 printf '\033[1A' # move cursor up once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code start_time="$(date +%s)" start_time_pretty="$(date -d "@$start_time" +%R)" >&2 printf -- '\r%s- > %s' "$start_time_pretty" "$message" # Wait for EOF cat > /dev/null 2>&1 end_time="$(date +%s)" end_time_pretty="$(date -d "@$end_time" +%R)" >&2 printf -- '\r%s-%s > %s\n' "$start_time_pretty" "$end_time_pretty" "$message" if printf '%s' "$message" | grep ',' > /dev/null then # escape potential double quotes message="$(printf '%s' "$message" | sed -e 's/"/""/g')" message="\"$message\"" fi # save clocked time and message printf '%s,%s,%s\n' "$start_time" "$end_time" "$message" >> "$clocks" done