From d4ae19789d49076ef1aac6bc72e7b9af5752bbef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aminda Suomalainen <suomalainen+git@mikaela.info>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:38:30 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] bash: add employees.bash (another UAS thing)

---
 bash/.gitignore     |  2 ++
 bash/employees.bash | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 bash/employees.bash

diff --git a/bash/.gitignore b/bash/.gitignore
index c80fff3..d4d10c8 100644
--- a/bash/.gitignore
+++ b/bash/.gitignore
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 *.jpeg
 # download-forgejo.bash results to these
 forgejo-*
+# employees.bash
+employees.csv
 # submodule symlinks
 backup-ops2l-vmc.bash
 generate-vcard-qr.bash
diff --git a/bash/employees.bash b/bash/employees.bash
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..216f86e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bash/employees.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Ensure that the file is empty. -n is specified to avoid \n which would
+# become obvious in the cat in the end.
+echo -n '' >employees.csv
+
+# Begin at 0 so the incrementing later makes the first employee id 1.
+employees=0
+
+# While the employee name isn't 0, take names.
+# neovim again complains about backslash dangling and I will probably never
+# type read without -r
+while true; do
+	echo "Enter employee name or 0 to stop: "
+	read -r name
+
+	# stops and breaks out of the loop
+	if [ "$name" = "0" ]; then
+		break
+	fi
+
+	# begin at employee id 1 by incrementing employees from 0
+	employee_id=$((employees + 1))
+
+	# store employee_id and name to employees.csv
+	# I think tsv would be easier and better, but this is what the task requested.
+	echo "$employee_id;$name" >>employees.csv
+
+	# increment employees so the next id will be 2
+	employees=$((employees + 1))
+done
+
+# and finally print our document. I stand with tsv being better option.
+cat employees.csv