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Tue, 27 Dec 2005

[10:04] Modblog Transplant
OK, I finally moved all of the ModBlog articles over here. If anyone were to care, they could look here: blog.kynan.org/modblog. The code I used to turn the output from ModBlog into something that can be read by blosxom is a dodgy Korn shell script. I should have done it with something else but shell scripting, despite being ugly, is just too easy. I suspect this could have been done in a much nicer fashion using perl but what the hey - it worked.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
INFILE="kynan_modblog.txt"

cat $INFILE | while read -r aline
do
	DATE=`echo $aline|cut -c1-4`
	if [ "$DATE" == "Date" ];then
		DATE=`echo $aline | awk '{print $2}'`
		TIME=`echo $aline | awk '{print $4}'|sed 's/
//'`
		AMPM=`echo $TIME | tr -d '[0-9:]'`
		if [ $AMPM == "PM" ];then
			HOUR=`echo $TIME | cut -f1 -d:`
			HOUR=$(($HOUR + 12))
			if [ $HOUR -eq 24 ];then
				HOUR=00
			fi
		else
			HOUR=`echo $TIME | cut -f1 -d:`
			if [ ${#HOUR} -eq 1 ];then
				HOUR=0$HOUR
			fi
		fi
		TIME=$HOUR`echo $TIME|cut -f2 -d:|tr -d '[A-Z]'`
		YEAR=`echo $DATE | cut -d/ -f3`
		MONTH=`echo $DATE | cut -d/ -f1`
		DAY=`echo $DATE | cut -d/ -f2`
		if [ ${#MONTH} -eq 1 ];then
			MONTH=0$MONTH
		fi
		if [ ${#DAY} -eq 1 ];then
			DAY=0$DAY
		fi
		OUTFILE=$YEAR$MONTH$DAY-$TIME
	fi
	if [ "----------
" == "$aline" ];then
		mv $$ ./done/${OUTFILE}.txt
		echo touch -t $MONTH$DAY$TIME ./done/${OUTFILE}.txt
	else
		echo -E "$aline" >> $$
	fi
done

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[02:58] White Christmas...check!
It was a mite nippy when I stepped out to go to work this morning and by the time I hit London Bridge it was snowing, albeit in a somewhat off-handed and desultory manner. I called Shona when I got to work and she had apparently been trying to call me. IT all sort off packed up by 0930 but then, about 30 minutes later it put on a show of force and really dumped. I don't know what it's like at the moment as my office has no windows but Firefox (well ForecastFox actually) tells me that it is now up to 0 degrees from -2 and it's also "Partly Sunny" as opposed to "Snowing" so I guess the shows over. Now I just have a slushy ride home to look forward to!

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