A quick and dirty shell script that compiles the RIT SE250T course's activity journals into a single file with a breakdown of times for each stage as well as total times for the project. See the code comments for more information.

compileJournals.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Author: 
#	Nate Levesque <ngl3477@rit.edu>
# Language: 
#	Shell
# Description:
# 	Compiles the SE Activity journals into one file
#
# Usage:
#	The program needs to be placed and run in the git working directory
#	where the activities/projects are stored for the class. When run,
#	it requests a filename to save a summary to, then runs through
#	and finds all the Activity_Journal.txt files and pulls the estimated
#	and calculated time values from them.
#
#	The program was built quick and dirty and therefore isn't terribly
#	robust. It assumes that the files are formatted exactly as the 
#	provided ones say they are supposed to be and that the time values
#	are properly filled. If a time value contains something that is not
#	a number, is missing or the HH MM values are separated by something 
#	other than a space, the program will probably have a problem with it.
#
#	The program can be run with `bash compileJournals.sh`, or if executable
#	permissions have been added, with simply ./compileJournals.sh
#

# Pull the system time so that we have a unique number to use
# with the files we throw in /tmp
systime=`date +%m%s`

# Calculates the total times for a given project journal file
#
# Parameters:
#	path to the file
#	value to grep for (i.e, 'Actual')
#
calcTotal(){
	
	# Iterate through all the reported times in the
	# file and calculate the total minutes and hours
	cat $1 | grep "$2" | while read p; do
	
			stagehr=`echo $p | cut -d " " -f 3`
			stagemin=`echo $p | cut -d " " -f 4 | cut -c 1-2`
			
			minutes=$(( $minutes + $stagemin ))
			hours=$(( $hours + $stagehr ))
			
			total="$(($hours + $(($minutes/60)) )) $(( $minutes%60 ))"
			# Store the total in a file so when the subshell exits
			# it can still be retrieved
			echo $total > /tmp/est$systime
	done;
	
	# Retrieve the value
	total=`cat /tmp/est$systime`
	
	# Remove the temp file
	rm /tmp/est$systime
	
	# Return the value
	echo $total

}


# Iterate through all the Activity_Journal.txt files found
projects=0
read -p "Where to save the breakdown: " fname

# Create a file (or clear it, if it exists)
>$fname

for file in `find ./ -name Activity_Journal.txt`; do
	(( projects++ ))
	# Create a header for the section with the name
	echo "======================================" >> $fname;
	cat $file | head -2 | tail -1 >> $fname; 
	echo "======================================" >> $fname;
	
	# Calculate the totals for the file
	estimate=$(calcTotal $file "Estimated Time")
	echo "Estimated Time $estimate" >> /tmp/tot$systime
	actual=$(calcTotal $file "Actual Time")
	echo "Actual Time $actual" >> /tmp/tot$systime
	
	# Output the stage breakdown and totals to the file
	echo -e " Stage  Type            Time" >> $fname
	echo -e "`cat $file | grep "Estimated" | cat -n`\n" >> $fname;
	echo -e "`cat $file | grep "Actual" | cat -n `\n" >> $fname;
	echo " Total" >> $fname
	echo "     Estimated $estimate" >> $fname
	echo "     Actual    $actual" >> $fname
	echo -e "\n\n" >> $fname
done

# Calculate the overall totals
totalEstimate=$(calcTotal "/tmp/tot$systime" "Estimated")
totalActual=$(calcTotal "/tmp/tot$systime" "Actual")

# Remove the temporary file for totals
rm /tmp/tot$systime

# Display time summary
echo "Calculated breakdown for $projects project(s)."
echo "    Total estimated time   $totalEstimate"
echo "    Actual calculated time $totalActual"
echo ""
echo "Saved breakdown details to $fname."