Started to get fun on this so i prepared this to be used as executable file in either (on linux):
* ~/bin
* ~/.local/bin
* /bin
* /usr/bin
Then use like:
Shows: Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct
As it shows June 2014 with a range of 4 months, but only showing every 2nd.
The 3rd argument, to alter the range, is optional!
Default is 2.
4th argument could alter the steps it takes, 1 for each, 2 for every 2nd. etc.
Default is 1.
Shows April-August of 2022
Or even just:
For the same timerange of the current year.
I am trying to configure the cal command to recognize the month names.
When you type: cal - you get the calander for the current month of the current year.
Is there a way of making the system recognize March, and Mar. So I could type:
cal March or cal mar and get the same response as cal.... (5 Replies)
I am new to unix...
How to get all the saturdays of a specific year?
for a specific month, i tried as below..
cal 02 2006 | awk '{print $7}'
but it is not giving all saturdays....
can anyone help me with this?
Thanks in advance,
Sumi (9 Replies)
hey all,
I was wondering if it was possible to get the julian date with the cal command.
I know that the "-j" option will display it, however, i need the Julian Date of a specific date, in number.
For example, the User would enter their age like
19800101 or YYYMMDD, like so. This info... (0 Replies)
I am using AIX version 5.3
I like the cal function because I can print a nice concise view of the calendar for the whole year. I want the calendar to display with 3 months across instead of 2, which is what is happening. My terminal display is set with 67 rows and 140 columns so that should... (0 Replies)
Jim , Anyone
I do not have GNU date
Besides I am particularly interested in how one can parse the return from the cal command. Say do - cal 11 2008 - and parse out a given date, say the 8th and return that the 8th was Saturday. ( diffrentiating between S for Saturday and Sunday , also in the case... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I wanted to display calender for the previou, current and next month in a single command...
I used the command cal -3 for this. But its throwing me a Bad Argument error.
I am using HP UX to execute this command. Is this a syntax error, or let me know if there any other ways to... (6 Replies)
I got this from this board yesterday
cal | xargs -n1 | tail -1 which displays the current months days.. for instance if you type this in a shell today you will get 31.
I would like to also display the month and year.. something like
March 2011 has 31 days.
how would I do that?
... (3 Replies)
I just want to know, how do we calculate the months in shell scripting.
If i give the input as 20-01-2011, the output should be 20-02-2011, 20-03-2011 or 20-04-2011........
How do i get this ?
Cheers. (6 Replies)