Tool that I find very helpful and use everyday, can't be that bad if it's just one line right?

note

#!/bin/bash

# TODO:
# if not args then display notes

notefile="/home/mark/notes.txt"

# this script does not seem safe to me, but if only I use it it's fine, definitly very explotiable though
echo "$(date -Iminutes)" "$@" >> "$notefile"

Brilliant! Here's my take on your script with the following changes:

• Output the contents of the note file if no arguments are passed.

• Updated hardcoded path to note file to use $HOME instead.

• Updated date command to be more portable

  date under macOS doesn't have a -I option. A portable solution is to use +%FT%H:%M instead.

#!/bin/sh

notefile="$HOME/notes.txt"

if [[ "$#"-eq 0 ]]; then
  cat $notefile
else
  echo "$(date +%FT%H:%M)" "$@" >> "$notefile"
fi

Thank you! I am now using your version :)