add day param

script.py

@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@ from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
 import subprocess
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 import os
-import fnmatch
+import sys
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+    time_ag_arg = int(sys.argv[1])
+else:
+    time_ag_arg = False
 
 #create the log directory
 path = "/home/xpub/www/html/tl-dr/log-books"
@@ -13,6 +18,12 @@ if not  os.path.exists(path):
 now = datetime.today()
 book_name = "TL;DR_" + now.strftime("%B %dth %Y")
 
+def get_journalctl_on():
+    if time_ag_arg:
+        return ["-S", f"{time_ag_arg + 1} days ago", "-U",  f"{time_ag_arg} days ago"]    
+    else:
+        return ["-S","today"]
+
 def create_all_logs_file():
     list_logs = subprocess.run(["ls", "/home/xpub/www/html/tl-dr/log-books"], capture_output=True)
 
@@ -34,9 +45,11 @@ def run_command(command, based = False):
 # Run all the commands for getting the logs, and assign to variables
 print("start running the log commands");
 
+
+# journalctl --utc
 last_user_added = subprocess.run(["sudo", "journalctl","_COMM=useradd","-r","-n", "1" , "--output-fields=MESSAGE"], capture_output=True)
 last_user_added_name = run_command(['grep', '-Po', "(?<=name)\W*\K[^ ]*"], based=last_user_added.stdout)
-users_created_today = run_command(["sudo", "journalctl", "-S","today","_COMM=useradd","-r","--output-fields=MESSAGE"]).splitlines()
+users_created_today = run_command(["sudo", "journalctl","_COMM=useradd","-r"] + get_journalctl_on()).splitlines()
 
 since_last_boot = run_command(["uptime","-s"])
 slb_date = datetime.strptime(since_last_boot, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
@@ -105,9 +118,9 @@ output = template.render(
 
 print("Output the files");
 # Export the html as book.html, which is used as an input for pandoc
-with open("/home/xpub/www/html/tl-dr/book.html", "w") as f:
+with open(f"/home/xpub/www/html/tl-dr/book_${time_ag_arg}.html", "w") as f:
     print(output, file=f)
-    subprocess.run(['sh', '/home/xpub/www/html/tl-dr/create_book.sh', book_name])
+    # subprocess.run(['sh', '/home/xpub/www/html/tl-dr/create_book.sh', book_name])
     print("Finished");
 
 # At the moment, we are not storing logs in the log folder anymore