Personal journal template generator in Groovy. Generates a page of formated days in given month.

Journal template

#!/usr/bin/env groovy

/*

Generates a template for journal (for a single month).

Example:

 Journal 2013/11

 2013-11-01 (Fri)

 2013-11-02 (Sat)
 ...

Requirements:
Groovy (http://groovy.codehaus.org/)

Installation:
paste eg. to ~/bin/journal.groovy
chmod +x ~/bin/journal.groovy

Usage:
journal.groovy [YYYY-MM]
Generate template for a given month:

  $ journal.groovy '2012-05' >> log-2012-05.txt

Or for the current one, if none given.

  $ journal.groovy >> log-this-month.txt

Author: Bohumir Zamecnik (http://zamecnik.me)
License: MIT License

*/

import groovy.time.TimeCategory

def generateJournal(month) {
	use (TimeCategory) {
		def start = Date.parse('yyyy-MM', month)
		def end = start + 1.month
		println """Journal ${start.format('yyyy/MM')}

${(start..<end).collect {it.format('yyyy-MM-dd (E)')}.join('\n\n')}
"""
	}
}

generateJournal(args ? args[0] : new Date().format('yyyy-MM'))