[ale] Linux shell process

[Jim Kinney]

cool tool but useless on modern *NIX.

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.

For tiny systems, that's a great tool!

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.


On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> calendar not a default package any more for fedora (or RHEL) I think. On
> my work laptop, it's an EPEL repo item.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> >     I would create a ~/.calendar file. Then I would receive an email
>> reminding
>> >     me.
>> >
>> >     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.
>>
>> % man calendar
>> No manual entry for calendar
>>
>> This is on my F15 laptop
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> --
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> James P. Kinney III
>
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> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - *2011 Noam Chomsky
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James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
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