I'm usually quite tired when I get up in the morning. Beeing a consultant with flexible hours, it is often easy to forget exactly when I got to the office in the morning. So I figured i had to write a script to check when I started my computer. What it does is checking the syslog for the first occurence of todays date. I'm running Ubuntu linux and the syslog file is rotated a while after my computer has started. This is why I'm checking syslog.0.
The magic one liner:
date "+%b %d" | xargs -i grep -m1 -i {} /var/log/syslog.0
|awk '{ print "Today I got to work at " $3 }'
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