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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 next months)

As I was looking for options to use with the command cal, I found there's one : cal -con[tinue]=n which displays the next n successive months starting with the month specified. I wanted to know if there's a similar command that displays the previous n months for example?

Thank you

You could try:

Code:

for months in 6 7 8 9 10;do cal $months $(date +'%Y');done

Hope this helps

Oh thank you ! This one works very well !
I have another question related to this subject, I have found in this website : (unix.com/man-page/Linux/1/cal/ Man Page for cal) that I can use the command cal with these options :

Code:

cal [-3hj] [-A number] [-B number] -m month [year]

knowing that :
-A number
Display the number of months after the current month.

-B number
Display the number of months before the current month.
But when I try it, I get the same message as you did (invalid option -- 'A') . I don't understand why

I'm using linux, so i cannot test. (manpage differs from what is shown here as linux manpage)
Did you try it like:

Code:

cal -A 1 -B 2

Yes, I wrote it like this :

Code:

cal -A 2 -B 2 7 2013

Please get used to the code tags...
This one's not so tragic, but for 'longer' codes in the future.

Kinda looks 'good' to me.
Just out of curiosity, i'd switch the arguments and try again, if that doesnt help, i have no further idea.

Code:

cal 7 2013 -A 2 -B 2

Since the first post did work, it would be nice to click on the "thanks" button too.

Thank you and hope this helps.

Okay, I will .. I'm new to this forum and I'm still discovering its features !
Unfortunately, it didn't work. I was thinking that maybe it's because I don't have the same synopsis of the command cal when I try it compared to the one on the website I took the options (A and B) from..

Moderator's Comments:

please edit your former posts and add code tags! thank you.