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+# ws_quickcheck
+
+Add the contents of the file `ws_quickcheck.env` to your `.basrc` (or similar) to get a short summary of the status of your workspaces at shell startup.
diff --git a/envs/ws_quickcheck/ws_quickcheck.env b/envs/ws_quickcheck/ws_quickcheck.env
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+# This file is meant to be sourced, not executed.
+# Add the contents to your shell startup file, i.g. `.bashrc` 
+
+# Summary of workspace status
+function ws_quickcheck() {
+ws_list -R | awk -e '
+    BEGIN {
+      color_red="\033[31m"
+      color_green="\033[32m"
+      color_orange="\033[33m"
+      color_blue="\033[34m"
+      color_clear="\033[0m"
+      num_ws=0
+      print color_blue "--------------------------------------------------------
+------------" color_clear;
+      print color_blue "Workspaces:" color_clear;                              
+      print color_blue "--------------------------------------------------------
+------------" color_clear;
+    }
+    /^id:/ {
+      ws_name=$2;
+    }
+    /remaining time/ {
+      gsub("^.*:","",$0);
+      days=$1;
+      hours=$3
+      color=color_green;
+      remaining=days + hours / 24;
+      if (remaining < 7)
+        color=color_red;
+      else if(remaining < 14)
+        color=color_orange;
+      printf color "%-60s %7.2f" color_clear "\n", ws_name, remaining;         
+      num_ws = num_ws + 1
+    }
+    END {
+      if (num_ws < 1)
+        print color_blue "(no workspaces)"                                     
+      print color_blue "--------------------------------------------------------------------" color_clear;
+    }
+    '
+}
+
+# check if interactive shell
+if [ -t 1 ]; then
+  ws_quickcheck
+fi