Birthdays!!

Birthdays are the most difficult thing to remember( or may be second most difficult after names or faces :P). So people put reminders on various websites creating birthday calendars. But what if you are not allowed to access external emails? So wrote simplest of scripts to do it and sharing it here in case anyone needs it.

#!/bin/ksh

TODAY_DATE=`date +'%m%d'`

BIRTHDAY_FILE=birthday

RECIPIENTS="your mail ID"

TO_BE_MAILED=mail

NAME=`grep $TODAY_DATE birthday|awk '{FS=" "} {print $2}'`

if [[ -n $NAME ]];

then

echo "To: $RECIPIENTS">$TO_BE_MAILED

echo "Subject: Birthday Reminder" >>$TO_BE_MAILED

echo "Mime-Version: 1.0">>$TO_BE_MAILED

echo "Content-Type: text/html" >>$TO_BE_MAILED

echo "<><>">>$TO_BE_MAILED

echo "< equiv ="\" content="\" charset="UTF-8\">">>"$TO_BE_MAILED

echo "< /HEAD><>">>$TO_BE_MAILED

echo "Today is $NAME's birthday">>$TO_BE_MAILED

echo "< /BODY>< /HTML>">>$TO_BE_MAILED

`cat $TO_BE_MAILED|/usr/lib/sendmail -t `

fi

You can refine and modify it according to your needs. I just was too lazy to improve it once it started working.Add the script to your ".profile". And as soon as you login you will get an email reminding you of any birthday :). One important thing, because blogger doesnt allow me to write HTML tags i have added space before ever HTML tag, please remove that .All birthday's are saved in a file named birthday in the below format : birthday , followed by name

0101 PAPA

0202 MUMMY

0303 SIS