best expression of a timeperiod with same hours every day

[Martin Melin]

There is no way to avoid having one line per weekday in the config, but that
doesn't mean that you have to write the definitions out by hand :-) A quick
shellscript to echo each weekday with an argument and you should be good to
go. Here you go:

#!/bin/sh
echo "sunday            $1"
echo "monday            $1"
echo "tuesday           $1"
echo "wednesday $1"
echo "thursday  $1"
echo "friday            $1"
echo "saturday  $1"

Add the above to a dir in your path, then when you need to add a timeperiod
definition you can use ":r ! timeperiod.sh 04:00-21:00" in vi, or something
similar in your editor of choice.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Justin Pryzby <justinp at norchemlab.com>wrote:

> Is there a shorter way of expressing this?  We have several cases
> where we need this, with different intervals.  I was hoping there was
> a way of writing it in fewer than 10 lines each.
>
> define timeperiod {
>        sunday          04:00-21:00
>        monday          04:00-21:00
>        tuesday         04:00-21:00
>        wednesday       04:00-21:00
>        thursday        04:00-21:00
>        friday          04:00-21:00
>        saturday        04:00-21:00
> }
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
>
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