cmdnotes: Small bash extension scripts to take notes on the command line

cnote.env

#!/bin/bash
# cnote -- Shell extension scripts to take notes on the command line
# Source this file from .bashrc or your shell init script to enable command line notes
# Usage:
# To create and edit a note
# $ cnew <notename>
# To list all notes containing <regexp> in their title
# $ cnls <regexp>
# To trash a note
# $ cnrm <notename>

# The editor you want to use
# this might be set already in your .bashrc
# export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim 

# set this to any path were you want to keep the notes
CNOTEDIR="$HOME/ownCloud/appData/cnote"

cnote() {
	PARAM=`basename $1`
	CNOTENAME=$PARAM
	DATETIME=`date +"%y-%m-%d_%H:%M"`
	if [[ -z $PARAM ]]
	then
		CNOTENAME="note_$DATETIME"
	fi
	CNOTEPATH="$CNOTEDIR/$CNOTENAME.txt"
	if [[ ! -a $CNOTEPATH ]] 
	then
		echo "note created $DATETIME" > $CNOTEPATH
	fi
	$EDITOR $CNOTEPATH
}

cnls() {
	ls -c $CNOTEDIR/*.txt | xargs -n1 basename | grep "$*" | sed 's/\.txt$//g'
}

cnrm() {
	mkdir -p $CNOTEDIR/trash
	PARAM=`basename $1`
	CNOTENAME=$PARAM
	CNOTEPATH="$CNOTEDIR/$CNOTENAME.txt"
	mv -f $CNOTEPATH $CNOTEDIR/trash/
}

cnpurge() {
  rm -f $CNOTEDIR/trash/*.txt
}