Read the date arithmetic article in our faq section. My datecalc script can do stuff like this:
The first argument is the day of the week (0 - 6) and the second argument is the year.
./script 6 2006 will give you all saturdays for 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)
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)
Plz help me
a) To display on the screen the sorted output of "who" along with the total no. of users.
b) the same output (except the no. of users) should be in file FILE1. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm curious to know if we can display 5 months of a calendar using the cal command. I know we can three successive months (cal -3) but I wanted to know if we can do it with 5 months for example. (Give a specific month, and get as a result two previous months + the month in question + two... (12 Replies)