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HTML
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<h2 class="title">Frequently Asked Questions</h2>
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(Actually, that's a misnomer. These are really Repeatedly Asked
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Questions.)
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Q: When I redirect the output of task to a file, I lose all
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the colors. How do I fix this?
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A: Task knows when the output is not going directly to a
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terminal, and strips out all the color control characters.
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Prevent this with the following entry in your .taskrc file:
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<pre><code>_forcecolor=on</code></pre>
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<b>
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Q: How do I backup my task data files? Where are they?
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A: Task writes all pending tasks to the file ~/.task/pending.data
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and all completed and deleted tasks to ~/.task/completed.data.
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They are text files, so they can just be copied to another
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location for safekeeping. Don't forget there is also the
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~/.taskrc file that contains your task configuration data.
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Q: How can I separate my work tasks from my home tasks?
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Specifically, can I keep them completely separate?
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A: You can do this by creating an alternate .taskrc file,
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then using shell aliases. Here is are example Bash
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commands to achieve this:
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<pre><code>% cp ~/.taskrc ~/.taskrc_home
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% (now edit .taskrc_home to change the value of data.location)
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% alias wtask="task"
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% alias htask="task rc:~/.taskrc_home"</code></pre>
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This gives you two commands, 'wtask' and 'htask' that
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operate using two different sets of task data files.
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