calendar(1) General Commands Manual calendar(1) Name calendar - calendar reminder service Syntax calendar [-] Description The command consults the file `calendar' in the current directory and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date. The com- mand recognizes most month-day dates, such as Dec. 7, december 7, 12/7, but it does not recognize dates formatted in the following ways: 7 December or 7/12. If you give the month as * with a date, such as, * 1, that day in any month will do. On weekends, specifying tomorrow extends through Monday. When an argument is present, the command searches through a user's calendar file in his login directory and sends him any positive results by Normally this is done daily under control of The calendar file is first run through the C preprocessor, to include any other calendar files specified with the #include syntax. Included calendars are shared by all users, and are maintained and documented by the local administration. Options - Functions for every user who has a calendar file in his login directory. Restrictions The extended idea of tomorrow does not account for holidays. Files calendar /usr/lib/calendar to figure out today's and tomorrow's dates /etc/passwd /tmp/cal* /lib/cpp, egrep, sed, mail as subprocesses See Also at(1), cron(8), mail(1) calendar(1)