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6 bournal - When nobody else cares what you have to say!
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9 bournal [options]
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12 bournal is a program that allows you to write personal, password-pro‐
13 tected journal entries, as well as search through and edit old entries.
14 Bournal has no internet capabilities, so if you're looking for a blog‐
15 ging app, boy, did you install the wrong package.
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18 These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
19 options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
20 included below.
21 -h, --help
23 Show summary of options
24 -i Interactive mode--Open a bournal shell to run several operations
26 without having to reenter your password. Readline editing
27 options are supported.
28 -lst List and edit entries made today. You will be prompted to choose
30 a subject.
31 -ls [MONTH] [YEAR]
33 List and edit archived entries. Month and year arguments filter
34 out superfluous entries, which will prompt you first with a list
35 of days within the given timeframe, then a list of subjects made
36 on the chosen day. If no month or year arguments are given, all
37 days containing entries are listed, followed by a list of
38 entries made on the chosen day.
39 -d [MONTH] [YEAR]
41 List and delete archived entries. Month and year arguments fil‐
42 ter out superfluous entries, which will prompt you first with a
43 list of days within the given time frame, then a list of sub‐
44 jects made on the chosen day. If no month or year arguments are
45 given, all days containing entries are listed, followed by a
46 list of entries made on the chosen day, then a prompt to confirm
47 deletion.
48 -f [PATTERN] [MONTH]
50 Find text within entries. Protect space-separated search terms
51 with quotes. Regular expression searches are accepted, using
52 egrep syntax.
53 -fi [PatTerN] [MONTH]
55 Find case-insensitive text within entries. Protect space-sepa‐
56 rated search terms with quotes. Regular expression searches are
57 accepted, using egrep syntax.
58 -r Read all entries at once
60 -p Change the encryption password
62 -v, --version
64 Show version information
65 --hack_the_gibson
67 Hack the planet (for updates)
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70 ccrypt a utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams
71 Linux or something similar with basic *NIX utils
73 Vim or Nano or Jed , or some other editor that is not as awesome as
75 Vim.
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78 Files encrypted with ccrypt WILL work between computers (assuming it's
79 installed), so taking Bournal and all its entries with you on a flash
80 drive will work just peachy. You can have entries automatically saved
81 to the flash drive by changing the DIR variable to the path of your
82 flashdrive, (e.g. ` DIR=/media/USB_VOL_NAME `). However, if you run
83 Bournal from a USB drive, you will need to predeed it with a shell
84 (e.g. ` bash bournal `)
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87 ~/.bournal/
88 Default directory where entries are stored.
89 ~/.bournal/.passwd.cpt
91 Default password file.
92 ~/.bournalrc
94 Default configuration file.
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97 grep(1), regex(7), readline(3), vim(1), nano(1), nanorc(1), jed(1)
98 Bournal web page
100 http://freshmeat.net/projects/bournal
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103 bournal was written by Professor Fapsanders <frankpena@gmail.com>.
104 This manual page was written by Kevin Wallace <kevjava@gmail.com>, for
106 the Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).
107 September 26, 2008 BOURNAL(1)