[Solved] CLI Calendar

archman-cro · 2010-04-10 10:21:24

Where to find this calendar?

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ucalande.htm

I had it on ubuntu, and liked it, used it to show me the "today appointment" in conky. Anyone knows where is it? Or some light alternative?

Last edited by archman-cro (2010-07-09 23:40:41)

xenofungus · 2010-04-10 10:43:12

No idea, but it looks very similar to remind, which is in community.

dcc24 · 2010-04-10 10:43:53

It is in the util-linux-ng package. The command is cal.

Edit: Oh, I now see that's probably not what you were asking for. Sorry.

Last edited by dcc24 (2010-04-10 10:45:13)

Vamp898 · 2010-04-10 10:47:47

cal displays a calendar^^

archman-cro · 2010-04-10 11:23:47

I know, guys, but i want some calendar which will output a message only (from a file) for today (example, for April 10th)

I used to do "calendar -l 0 -f <file with dates>" and it'd echo the line which corresponds with the date.
Example:

user@arch ~]$ calendar -l 0 -f dates.txt
You need to go climbing today.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the replies, btw.

Last edited by archman-cro (2010-04-10 11:28:20)

bernarcher · 2010-04-10 12:00:42

You may have a look at "pal" from extra. Citing from "man pal":

       pal  is  a command‐line calendar utility.  It displays a cal(1)‐like calender
       and events specified in text files.

OPTIONS
       The following options are provided by pal:

       -d date
              Show events on the given date.  Valid formats for  date  include:  dd,
              mmdd,  yyyymmdd,  'yesterday',  'today', 'tomorrow', 'n days away', 'n
              days ago', first two letters of weekday, 'next ' followed by first two
              letters  of weekday, 'last ' followed by first two letters of weekday,
              '1 Jan 2000', 'Jan 1 2000'.

( . . . )

       Event Files
          Event  files  are  ASCII  or UTF-8 text files (usually with a .pal ending)
          that define events for pal to show.  Example event files can be  found  in
          /usr/share/pal.   The  first  line  in  these files indicate settings that
          apply to all of the events in the file.  The first line  starts  with  two
          characters  that  should  be  used  in  the calendar that pal displays.  A
          longer description of the kinds of events in  the  file  follows  the  two
          characters.   This  description  will be displayed when the -r argument is
          used.  All other lines in the file are in the  format  date  event.   date
          defines  when  the  event  occurs and event is a string that describes the
          event.

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archman-cro · 2010-04-10 12:40:29

berbarcher, I've tried it, it gives to many output. I practically want it to display my appointment like with a "cat" command, nothing more.

Anyone knows where can I find this "calendar" thing? :S

dcc24 · 2010-04-10 12:56:40

Does apt have a functionality similar to "pacman -Qo" that shows the owner of a package? If so, you can see which package it belongs to with "<some apt command> $(which calendar)"

Procyon · 2010-04-10 12:56:58

grep "$(date '+%b %d')" dates.txt
Apr 10: Go climbing.

thisoldman · 2010-04-10 13:26:08

You might try 'when' from community: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/when/

Online man page: http://www.lightandmatter.com/when/when.html

Tutorial, if one is needed: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/114127

archman-cro · 2010-04-10 16:26:28

Procyon wrote:

grep "$(date '+%b %d')" dates.txt
Apr 10: Go climbing.

Wow , thanks, man! That's it. That's one of the things why I wanna learn bash properly.

So the command goes like this for me:

grep "$(date '+%d %m')" <path_to_file>

@ dcc24: I don't use ubuntu anymore since I've switched to Arch. Thanks, anyway!

@ thisoldman: thanks!

Last edited by archman-cro (2010-04-10 16:30:47)

muunleit · 2010-04-11 10:02:25

Calcurse from community maybe interesting, too.

archman-cro · 2010-04-11 11:02:57

@ muunleit, tried it, but removed it, cause "date" does the job. Thanks anyway!

harryNID · 2010-04-24 23:25:25

How about the best of both worlds. Just make sure to structure your date command to match whatever date you have in your file so grep can find it. Also I chose "grep -F" to save you 1/1000000th of a second processor time cause every bit helps!

A slightly prettier version of the same command.

clear && cal && printf "%s\n\n" "$(grep -F "$(date '+%b %d')" dates.txt)"

Output:

April 2010
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

Apr 24 Have Fun!

[07:02 PM harry@ ~]$

The "clear &&" is for making it stand-out in the terminal. For other uses you might want to drop it.

archman-cro · 2010-07-09 23:40:11

@harryNID: Sorry, I didn't see your reply. It looks awesome. Thanks!

harryNID · 2010-07-11 03:57:20

My pleasure.:D

That's my way of learning BASH. I search for little problems like this and try to figure them out. To tell you the truth I had forgot about this post too. I just happened back here while looking through the forum.

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