08-01-2009
Suggestions on furthering my skills?
I am fairly 'green' when it comes to UNIX and programming in general. I am going into the start of my second year of my BS in Software Systems Engineering. My first year was pretty slow and simple with basic math, english composition and a few java, databse, and entry level 'psuedo code' programming classes. Now into the start of year two we are tackling Unix head on, and I have to say I have fallen entirely in love with Unix, particularly Ubuntu 904 Desktop (VMWared!)
I've worked my way around the terminal, and we are about to finish up our 'basics of Unix' class and I am eager for more programming and tech-fun!
So where should I go from here? The only real programming language I know is Java, and am diving into shell scripting, but I really don't know what route I should take to learning more and getting more skills under my belt.
I've heard some wonderful things about C+ as a MUST have skill so I am considering that to be my next hurdle, is there any way to tie in C+ to my Unix skills? (C-shell maybe?)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
xcalev
XCALEV(1) General Commands Manual XCALEV(1)
NAME
xcalev - load xcal calendar files with regular dates
SYNTAX
xcalev [ -r ][ -x ][ -f file ][ -d dir ][ year ]
DESCRIPTION
Xcalev is used to preload the calendar files for the xcal program with regular events in your life. It reads lines from a file (usually
called regular stored in your Calendar directory. Each line in the file contains three fields separated by spaces or tabs, these are: a
month name, a day in the month and some text. For example:
December 25 Christmas
Dec 31 New Year's Eve
The order of the month and the day are optional, the program deduces the day by looking whether the string contains an initial numeric
character or not. The year defaults to the current year unless the program is given a year number as an argument. This year cannot be
abbreviated to two digits because xcal
deals with years from year zero. There's a rough validity check on this.
The string from the data line is inserted in the appropriate file and will appear in your xcal date strip. Nothing will happen if the
string already exists in the file for that day. This means that it's safe to run xcalev at any time, only the strings that have altered in
the regular file will be updated.
To help with entering the same event for a number of days in one month, you can give a day range with a hyphen
Jan 16-21 Usenix SF
If you supply the -r option, xcalev will delete all the matching strings that it finds in the appropriate daily file. So, if you want to
make radical changes to the regular file, you should run xcalev with the -r option to remove all the current entries from one year, edit
the regular file and run xcalev to reload things.
OPTIONS
The -r option makes xcalev delete rather than append entries.
The -x option makes xcalev operate with Calendar files that are compatible with the xcalendar program.
The -f switch is followed by a filename gives an alternative name for the regular file. If the filename does not start with a slash or a
dot, then the name of your Calendar directory will be prepended to it.
The -d switch is followed by a directory name and specifies an alterative location for your Calendar directory. Your home directory is
prepended if the name doesn't start with a slash or a dot.
FILES
$HOME/Calendar/*
xc<dd><Mon><Year> A data file is day, Month in three letter format and the year.
xy<Year> A year directory.
xw<Day> A data file for the weekly code, one per day.
SEE ALSO
xcal(1), xcalpr(1), xcal_cal(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright 1993 by Peter Collinson, Hillside Systems All rights reserved.
X Version 11 R5 October 1993 XCALEV(1)