[ale] Linux shell process

[Lightner, Jeff]

I use cal to cheat at date math.  With grep and wc you can figure out many things more simply than with more esoteric methods.






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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 11:14 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux shell process

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<mailto: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<mailto:warlord at mit.edu>> wrote:
Dennis Ruzeski <denniruz at gmail.com<mailto: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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- 2011 Noam Chomsky

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