Remembering Birthdays

Remembering birthdays without Facebook is a bit tricky and was recently reminded of this over the past couple of weeks. I store my contacts in an org file (Emacs org-mode) on my home server, so I wrote a short script which runs at 1AM each day from Cron:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

d=$(date +%d/%m)
people=$(grep $d Contacts.org)

if [ -n "$people" ]; then
    echo "$people" | \
        awk -F'|' '{ print $2 }' | \
        mail -s "birthdays" someone@blah.bluh
fi

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