Damn! That's a really cool tip. Now I'll say that holy shit! What an odd and obscure thing to want for an admin skill (assuming that this was what they were looking for..)<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Chuck Peters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cp@axs.org">cp@axs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jim Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimbutler1234567890@gmail.com" target="_blank">jimbutler1234567890@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Suppose you have a list of 10 birthdays for 10 different friends, and<br>
you wanted to create a task from within a bash shell environment that<br>
would alert you as to when each friend's birthday came around. How would<br>
you do it?<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I would create a ~/.calendar file. Then I would receive an email reminding me. <br><br>You could also add the command calendar -w 7 in your .profile to display any birthdays in the next 7 days on login. See man calendar. I think I first learned about calendar using BSDi.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Chuck<br>
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