I use a couple awk scripts to manage a list of students who come to church with me every week. When a student tells me he will be coming on Sunday, I put an asterisk (*) in front of his name in a static text file with everyone’s names. If they tell me they won’t be coming, I put a minus sign (-) in front of their name so I remember that they said so. If for some reason I’m not sure, I put a question mark (?).
My main script spits out a list of all the students who are coming (i.e., have an asterisk). There’s no genius to it, I’m just logging it here for reference.
I also have another script that wipes all the attendance marks out of the main list file. Continue reading ‘Lazy list management’
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