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ams6110 on May 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cal – Display a Calendar in Your Terminal

FTA: I’d be really excited to hear all the use cases for gcal one can come up with. Seems really suited for a TODO list manager or to never forget a birthday again.

  $ man calendar
  CALENDAR(1)                 General Commands Manual                CALENDAR(1)

  NAME
     calendar - reminder service

  SYNOPSIS
     calendar [-abw] [-A num] [-B num] [-f calendarfile] [-t [[[cc]yy]mm]dd]

  DESCRIPTION
     The calendar utility checks the current directory or the directory
     specified by the CALENDAR_DIR environment variable for a file named
     calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's date or
     tomorrow's.  On Fridays, events on Friday through Monday are displayed.

  [...]

skeoh on May 12, 2016 | [–]

Geez, I had no idea about `calendar`. This is pretty nifty!

adius on May 12, 2016 | [–]

Cool, good to know! Maybe I'll write a future command line monday post about this. Sounds really helpful!

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