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)
hey everyone. I'm new to UNIX, and I'm having trouble with the cal command. I know that you can display a calendar if you just type in 'cal 3 2005' for example. But how would you do it if you just wanted the calendars displayed to be from March 2005 to June 2005?
Thanks (4 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)
This probably would be a cake walk for you, but i am having trouble with this.
I am trying to print every tuesday of the month from cal, and the FS default is space. There is one row that has few spaces at the beginning and so when i print $3, those spaces get ingnored and a different day gets... (2 Replies)
:o given a date example mm dd yyyy 01 02 1999
how can your parse cal 01 1999 and find the date in the above case 02 and display what the actual day was eg s m t w t f s
Thanks in advance Dragrid (7 Replies)
Hi all, I am trying to get dow from cal using below script
#! /bin/bash
YEAR=`echo $1 | cut -c 1-4`
MONTH=`echo $1 | cut -c 5-6`
DAY=`echo $1 | cut -c 7-8`
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
do
dayofweek=`cal $MONTH $YEAR | awk '$i == $DAY {printf("%s","$i")}'`
echo $dayofweek... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I wanted to display calender for the previou, current and next month in a single command...
I used the command cal -3 for this. But its throwing me a Bad Argument error.
I am using HP UX to execute this command. Is this a syntax error, or let me know if there any other ways to... (6 Replies)
I got this from this board yesterday
cal | xargs -n1 | tail -1 which displays the current months days.. for instance if you type this in a shell today you will get 31.
I would like to also display the month and year.. something like
March 2011 has 31 days.
how would I do that?
... (3 Replies)
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1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
Write a shell script that will:
"Display" the number of days in the current month. For example: September... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I want to make Monday as the first day of the month while using cal command
when I execute without bash, its working fine
/bin/sh
cal -m 03 2013
March 2013
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30... (5 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)