Like a lot of folk I need to keep track of how many days holiday I’ve booked off from work over the year. When I used Google Calendar I just searched for “holiday” and manually counted up the occurrences. I had hoped moving to Remind would give me a more nifty way of doing this, such as displaying a running count of days holiday booked next to the holiday event similar to how you can do clever things like display someone’s age next to their birthday. But after a lot of searching of the mailing list archives and reading of the manual I couldn’t figure out anyway of doing this. However, just using the simple output from Remind and grep on the command line it is easy to count of the number of days I’ve booked off so far this year as follows:
remind -s12 .reminders-work jan 2012 | grep Holiday | grep Public -vc
Piping two greps together seems to be the cleanest way to do this to avoid a messy regex. The first bit of the command just outputs all of my work calendar for the year in simple format. This is then piped into grep to filter for just holidays and then piped into another grep that filters out Public holidays and returns a count.