Wicked Cool Shell Scripts

#23 A Reminder Utility

Windows and Mac users for years have appreciated simple utilities like Stickies and Post-It, streamlined applications that let you have tiny reminder windows stuck on your screen. They're a perfect place to jot down a phone number or other reminder. If you're at the Unix command line, there's nothing analogous, yet the problem is quite easily solved, as shown in this pair of scripts.

The first script, remember, lets you easily file random snippets of information into a file. If invoked without any arguments, it reads standard input until the end of the file, and if invoked with arguments, it saves those arguments to the data file instead.

The other half of this duo is remindme, a companion shell script that either ...