Name
calendar
Synopsis
calendar [option
]
Reads your calendar
file and displays all
lines that contain the current date. The
calendar
file is like a memo board. You
create the file and add entries such as the following:
5/4 meeting with design group at 2 pm may 6 pick up anniversary card on way home
When you run calendar
on May 4, the first line is
displayed. calendar
can be automated by using
crontab
or at
, or by including
it in your startup files .profile
or .
login
.
Options
-
-A
num
Print the next
num
days in the future, including today.-
-a
Allow a privileged user to invoke
calendar
for all users, searching each user’s login directory for a file namedcalendar
. Entries that match are sent to a user via mail. This feature is intended for use viacron
. It isn’t recommended in networked environments with large user bases.-
-B
num
Print the previous
num
days in the past, including today.-
-d
MMDD
[[YY
]YY
] Display lines for the given date.
-
-F
daynum
Specify “virtual Friday,” the last day before the weekend.
-
-f
filename
Display calendar items from file
filename
instead of the defaultcalendar
file in your home directory.-
-l
n
Display calendar items up to
n
days ahead from the current date as well.-
-W
num
Print the next
num
days in the future, including today, but not counting weekend days in the count.-
-w
n
Force calendar to skip over weekends. Display calendar items up to
n
days ahead from the current date only when the current day is a Friday. The default forn
is 2.
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