Script to clean taskwarrior expired task templates

tclean

#!/usr/bin/env python

import subprocess
import os

FILE = os.environ['HOME'] + '/.task/pending.data'

x = subprocess.check_output([
    'task', 'status:recurring', 'until.before:today', 'ids'])
x = x.decode().rstrip()
lines = x.split(',')

for x in reversed(lines):
    if '-' in x:
        x = x.split('-')
        subprocess.call(['sed', '-i', '{},{}d'.format(x[0], x[1]), FILE])
    else:
        subprocess.call(['sed', '-i', '{}d'.format(x), FILE])