Command line program to get the contents of a Notes.app note

get_icloud_note

#!/bin/bash

# Author: Yotam Gingold <yotam (strudel) yotamgingold.com>
# License: Public Domain [CC0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
# On GitHub as a gist: https://gist.github.com/yig/76e87324ca1e9c754e8f28a8ef294dd0

usage()
{
    echo 1>&2 "Usage:" "$0" '<Notes.app note name>'
    exit -1
}

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
        usage
fi


## sometimes pandoc generates lots of extra blank lines, but textutil does weird things with lists.
osascript -e "tell application \"Notes\" to get body of (first note whose name is \"$1\")" | \
    pandoc --from=html --to=plain
    # textutil -format html -inputencoding UTF-8 -convert txt -stdin -stdout