limit with ids ergo: how to change top N tasks from a report

[allgreed]

• I want to mod X on next limit:20 -cron (so: task next limit:20 -cron mod X)
  • where X = reviewed:now, but I don't think it matters much, I want to mark top 20 tasks as reviewed, because I don't need to review them, since I'll have a look at them soon anyway.

That does not work as expected, therefore I thought I should go the id route - task $(task [somethign] ids) mod X. So: task next limit:20 -cron ids, however this does not limit the ids returend [neither does putting the limit at the end].

What I currently do is task next limit:20 - cron, copy the text output into vim, do some processing to get a comma separated list of ids and craft the final command.

Is there a sensible way of approaching this, where I can just run 1 command and get this done? Or should look more into automating the processing of the output?

[felixschurk]

Hei, I did not found a way of making it work with the ids command.
However what you could do, but also more on the postprocessing site is having a custom report that only outputs the ids you want with the specific limit and then pipe that into a modification.

If you add something like:

report.treport.columns           = id
report.treport.filter            = status:pending -WAITING limit:4
report.treport.sort            = urgency-
report.treport.context	          = 0

Now if you run your report and turn of extra verbosity with rc.verbose:0 you should get something like that:

ID
--
18
19
20
21

Now cutting out the first header lines you could add a tail -n +4 command to the pipe. So calling

$ task treport rc.verbose:0 | tail -n +4
18
19
20
21

Now you could call this command and modify as you like them over task $(task treport rc.verbose:0 | tail -n +4) mod XXX.

This way you would not need to postprocess something in vim. :)