Calendaring with cal
One of the handiest UNIX utilities is cal, which—logically—is a calendar. Find out what today's date is, what day of the week December 31st is, or what the calendar year looks like. As Code Listing 15.1 shows, all you have to do is type cal and any specific options you want.
To use the calendar utility:
1. | cal Type cal at the shell prompt to see the current month's calendar, as shown in Code Listing 15.1. Then, start playing with options, as shown in the next few steps. |
2. | cal -j Use cal -j to see the Julian calendar, which shows each day numbered from the beginning of the year. |
3. | cal 1999 | more Pipe cal 1999 to more to see the whole year's calendar. |
4. | cal 12 1941 Type cal plus specific dates to view dates for a particular year. |
Tip
Note that cal is Y2K compliant. If you ask for cal 98, you'll get the calendar for the year 98. That is, 1900 years ago.
Tip
Put cal into your startup configuration files to get a reminder of the date whenever you log in. Check out Chapter 8 for details.
Code Listing 15.1. Just type cal to see the current month's calendar, or check out other calendar options with flags.
[ejr@hobbes ch15]$ cal
August 1998
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
[ejr@hobbes ch15]$ cal -j
August 1998
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
213
214 215 216 217 218 219 220
221 222 223 224 225 226 227
228 229 230 231 232 233 234
235 236 237 238 239 240 241
242 243
[ejr@hobbes ch15]$ cal 1999 | more
1999
January February March
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 28 29 30 31
31
April May June
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 1 1 2 3 4 5
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30
30 31
July August September
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30
October November December
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 26 27 28 29 30 31
31
[ejr@hobbes ch15]$ cal 12 1941
December 1941
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
[ejr@hobbes ch15]$
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Code Listing 15.2. The system presents you with the reminder on command.
xmission> calendar august 28 On this date in history, nothing special happened. We think. xmission> |
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