[ale] Linux shell process

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 03/19/2012 12:03 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> 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.

And do some REALLY neat date math with perl's timelocal() and localtime()

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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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