To document the progress of my book writing, I created a little script that outputs words written over time.

Markdown files in my Obsidian Vault:

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find ~/Simon/Sync/SecondBrain -type f -name "*.md" | wc -l

or another one:

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find src -type f -not -path '*/\.*' -name '*.md' -exec cat {} \; | wc -w

Explanation:

find /path/to/your/obsidian/vault: Searches the specified directory.-type f: Ensures that only files are considered (not directories).-name "*.md": Filters the search to only include files with the .md extension.| wc -l: Counts the number of lines output by the find command, which corresponds to the number of Markdown files.

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Interesting is to count the words over time. As I have everything in git, I loop over git logs with this script words-history.sh:

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#!/bin/bashlast_count=0# Iterate over each commitgit log --reverse --pretty=format:"%H %ad" --date=short | while read hash date; do    # Check out the commit    git checkout $hash &> /dev/null    # Count the words in markdown files    words=$(find src -type f -not -path '*/\.*' -name '*.md' -exec cat {} + | wc -w)        # Compare with the last count and output only if different    if [ "$words" -ne "$last_count" ]; then        echo "$date,$words"        last_count=$words    fidone# Check out the original branchgit checkout main

Now I can run below in my Makefile:

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./words-history.sh > stats/stats-words.csv

With Rill Developer, I imported and created CSV and made a dashboard with

Simple is beauty.

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Created 2023-11-09