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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers If Then ElseIf Script - Confusion Around Expression's Syntax Post 302554918 by dqrgk0 on Tuesday 13th of September 2011 11:19:03 AM
Old 09-13-2011
Sorry folks - I did have a bunch of typos in my original posting. I'm really sorry about that. I will try the suggestions provided so far and let y'all know!

Thanks,
D

---------- Post updated at 10:19 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:52 AM ----------

I think since my requirements drastically changed, a lot of the suggestions may not apply...If anyone can forgive my ignorance and update or provide other solutions, I would appreciate it.

Again, apologies.

D
 

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mencal(1)								 1								 mencal(1)

NAME
mencal - menstruation calendar SYNOPSIS
mencal [options] [file1 file2 ... -c CONF1 -c CONF2 ...] DESCRIPTION
Display options: -m, --monday draw monday as first weekday (sunday is default) -1 current month (default) -3 previous, current and next month -y [YYYY] all-year calendar (default YYYY is current year) -q, --quiet no top information will be printed -n, --nocolor noncolored output -i, --icolor COLOR intersection color (default red) available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold mencal configuration: -c, --config s=[YYYY]MMDD,l=LL,d=DD,n=NAME,f=FILE,c=COLOR The second argument is a comma separated list of options. No spaces are allowed in this list. If no name is specified, 'Unknown' is used. Various -c options or filenames can be set. s,start=[YYYY]MMDD start day of period (default current day) l,length=LL length of period in days (default 28) d,duration=D duration of menstruation in days (default 4) n,name=NAME name of subject f,file=FILE filename to save configuration to (see section FILES) only menstruation related variables will be saved c,color=COLOR color used for menstruation days available colors: red, green, blue, yellow, violet, cyan, shiny, bold default color is red, with '-n' switch color settings are ignored Info options: -h, --help print help -V, --version print version information FILES
: $HOME/.mencalrc - the default configuration file that is automatically loaded AUTHOR
: (C) 2002 C. McCohy e-mail: <mccohy@kyberdigi.cz> Word-Wide-Web: http://www.kyberdigi.cz/projects/mencal/english This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page (but may be used by others). HISTORY
22 March 2002 - Originally written by Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org>. 24 Apr 2002 - New manpage contributed by Pablo S. Torralba <psanchez@skyrealms.org>. Amaya Rodrigo <amaya@debian.org> is now responsible for developing and maintaining this manual page. Comments and suggestions are greatly wellcome. mencal Menstruation calendar mencal(1)
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