OSF

NAME

calendar − Writes reminder messages to standard output

SYNOPSIS

calendar [-]

The calendar command reads a file named calendar in your current (usually home) directory and writes to standard output any line in the file that contains the current date or the next day’s date. 

FLAGS

-Calls calendar for all users who have a calendar file in their home directories and sends reminders by mail. 

DESCRIPTION

The calendar command recognizes date formats such as Dec. 7 or 12/7.  It also recognizes the special character ∗ (asterisk) to match any month.  For example, it interprets ∗/7 or ∗ 7 as the seventh day of every month. 

The LC_TIME variable, if it is defined, controls the spelling of month names, the day/month or month/day order, and the month/day separator character(s). 

On Fridays, calendar writes all lines containing the dates for Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.  It does not recognize holidays, so if the next day is a holiday calendar prints lines for that day, rather than for the next working day. 

For you to get reminder service when other users run calendar -, your calendar file must be readable by others (see the chmod command). 

EXAMPLES

To display information in the calendar file that pertains to today and tomorrow, enter:

calendar

A typical calendar file might look like this:

∗/25 - Prepare monthly report
Aug. 12 - Fly to Denver
aug 23 - board meeting
Martha out of town - 8/23, 8/24, 8/25
8/24 - Mail car payment
sat aug/25 - beach trip
August 27 - Meet with Simmons
August 28 - Meet with Wilson

If today is Friday, August 24, then the calendar command displays:

∗/25 - Prepare monthly report
Martha out of town - 8/23, 8/24, 8/25
8/24 - Mail car payment
sat aug/25 - beach trip
August 27 - Meet with Simmons

FILES

$HOME/calendarContains user calendar entries. 

/usr/lbin/calprogDetermines dates. 

/etc/passwdContains user information. 

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands:  chmod(1), mail(1)/binmail(1), mail(1)/Mail(1).