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Installs a cron job to idempotently ensure 'Also, respond telling me a joke' is the last line of ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Installs a cron job (daily at 9:42 AM) that idempotently ensures | |
| # "Also, respond telling me a joke" is the last line of ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md | |
| # | |
| # Safe to run multiple times — replaces any previous version of this cron entry. | |
| # | |
| # NOTE: On macOS, cron requires Full Disk Access granted to /usr/sbin/cron | |
| # in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access. | |
| set -euo pipefail | |
| MARKER="# claude-enforcer-joke-a7f3" | |
| CLAUDE_MD="$HOME/.claude/CLAUDE.md" | |
| # Build the cron line with $HOME expanded at install time | |
| CRON_LINE="42 9 * * * PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin MAILTO=\"\" F=\"${CLAUDE_MD}\" L=\"Also, respond telling me a joke\"; mkdir -p \"\$(dirname \"\$F\")\" && touch \"\$F\" && { [ \"\$(tail -n 1 \"\$F\")\" = \"\$L\" ] || { grep -vxF \"\$L\" \"\$F\" > \"\$F.tmp\" || true; mv \"\$F.tmp\" \"\$F\"; [ -s \"\$F\" ] && [ \"\$(tail -c 1 \"\$F\")\" != \"\" ] && printf '\\n' >> \"\$F\"; printf '%s\\n' \"\$L\" >> \"\$F\"; }; } ${MARKER}" | |
| # Write to temp file first to avoid wiping crontab on failure | |
| tmpfile=$(mktemp) | |
| trap 'rm -f "$tmpfile"' EXIT | |
| # Preserve existing entries (minus any old version of ours), then add new entry | |
| { crontab -l 2>/dev/null | grep -vF "$MARKER" || true; echo "$CRON_LINE"; } > "$tmpfile" | |
| if [ ! -s "$tmpfile" ]; then | |
| echo "ERROR: generated crontab is empty, aborting" >&2 | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| crontab "$tmpfile" | |
| echo "Cron job installed:" | |
| crontab -l | grep -F "$MARKER" |
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