cool tool but useless on modern *NIX.<br><br>Back when dinosaurs roamed and most ale-ers had non-gray hair (or hair at all!) and terminals were amber or green, tools like calendar were essential.<br><br>For tiny systems, that's a great tool!<br>
<br>see 'cal' command. It is in util-linux-ng package so is installed on Fedora and RHEL. It will not do the birthday thing from the OP but will display a simple 1 month (default), prior/current/next 3-month spread, or full year all with current day highlighted.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
calendar not a default package any more for fedora (or RHEL) I think. On my work laptop, it's an EPEL repo item.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warlord@mit.edu" target="_blank">warlord@mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Dennis Ruzeski <<a href="mailto:denniruz@gmail.com" target="_blank">denniruz@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> I would create a ~/.calendar file. Then I would receive an email reminding<br>
> me. <br>
><br>
> You could also add the command calendar -w 7 in your .profile to display<br>
> any birthdays in the next 7 days on login. See man calendar. I think I<br>
> first learned about calendar using BSDi.<br>
<br>
</div>% man calendar<br>
No manual entry for calendar<br>
<br>
This is on my F15 laptop<br>
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