Take notes on the command line
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Take notes on command line
NOTES.CMD is a commandline tool written in DOS Batch language. The task is to implement the same in your language.
Invoking NOTES without commandline arguments displays the current contents of the local NOTES.TXT if it exists. If NOTES has arguments, the current date and time are appended to the local NOTES.TXT followed by a newline. Then all the arguments, joined with a space, and prepended with a tab, are written to NOTES.TXT
DOS Batch File
<lang dos>@echo off if %1@==@ ( if exist notes.txt more notes.txt goto done ) echo %date% %time%:>>notes.txt echo %*>>notes.txt
- done</lang>
Factor
<lang factor>#! /usr/bin/env factor USING: kernel calendar calendar.format io io.encodings.utf8 io.files sequences command-line namespaces ;
command-line get [
"notes.txt" utf8 file-contents print
] [
" " join "\t" prepend "notes.txt" utf8 [ now timestamp>ymdhms print print flush ] with-file-appender
] if-empty</lang>
Python
<lang python>import sys, datetime
- sys.argv[1:] = 'go for it'.split()
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
try: f = open('notes.txt', 'r') sys.stdout.write(f.read()) f.close() except IOError: pass
else:
f = open('notes.txt', 'a') f.write(datetime.datetime.now().isoformat() + '\n') f.write("\t%s\n" % ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])) f.close()</lang>
Sample notes.txt file
After assorted runs:
2010-04-01T17:06:20.312000 go for it 2010-04-01T17:08:20.718000 go for it
Ruby
<lang ruby>notes = 'NOTES.TXT' if ARGV.empty?
File.copy_stream(notes, $stdout) rescue nil
else
File.open(notes, 'a') {|file| file.puts "%s\n\t%s" % [Time.now, ARGV.join(' ')]}
end</lang>
Tcl
<lang tcl># Make it easier to change the name of the notes file set notefile notes.txt
if {$argc} {
# Write a message to the file set msg [clock format [clock seconds]]\n\t[join $argv " "] set f [open $notefile a] puts $f $msg close $f
} else {
# Print the contents of the file catch {
set f [open $notefile] fcopy $f stdout close $f
}
}</lang> Sample output after a few runs:
Thu Apr 01 19:28:07 BST 2010 test 1 two three Thu Apr 01 19:28:49 BST 2010 TODO: Submit notes.tcl to Rosetta Code