<oerjan> le/rn rules of wisdom//Unless essential for the entry\'s humor, all wisdom entries should: be understandable without the separate key, be single spaced, and use proper capitalization and punctuation.

#!/bin/sh
find /var/irclogs/_esoteric -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '????-??-??.txt' | sort -r | xargs -d'\n' -r tac -- | grep "^..:..:..: <$1>" | head -n 1