Awk’s awesome. Thanks for reminding me of this fact. Because for me it was a nice walk down memory lane for a time when I used it to create an Objective-C formatter back in the day. I really appreciated your examples. I .ight just rekindle my old awk flame.

This looks to be exactly what I was imagining. Thanks for the suggestion!

I was hoping to find something more specific by posting here.

We drive across some pretty remote places, sometimes alone, so it would be more helpful to have a solution that periodically pings (hopefully automatically) and somehow shares with selected individuals.

Good question since I didn’t specify. I would prefer periodic tracking at some configurable interval, but I actually really appreciate all the answers because to be honest I had not even considered things like sending my location in Signal or the other one shot approaches.