calendar(C)


calendar -- invoke a reminder service

Syntax

calendar [ - ]

Description

calendar consults the file calendar in the user's current directory and mails the user lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date. Most reasonable month-day dates, such as Sep. 14, september 14, and 9/14, are recognized, but not 14 September, or 14/9.

On weekends, ``tomorrow'' extends through Monday. Lines that contain the date of a Monday will be sent to the user on the previous Friday. This is not true for holidays.

When an argument is present, calendar does its job for every user who has a file calendar in his login directory. Normally this is done daily, in the early morning, under the control of cron(C).

Limitations

To get reminder service, a user's calendar file must have read permission for all.

Files


calendar

/usr/lib/calprog
to calculate today's and tomorrow's dates

/etc/passwd

/tmp/cal*

See also

cron(C), mail(C)

Standards conformance

calendar is conformant with:

AT&T SVID Issue 2;
X/Open CAE Specification, Commands and Utilities, Issue 4, 1992: note that this command is marked as to be withdrawn.


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