term% cat index.txt CALENDAR(1) General Commands Manual CALENDAR(1)
NAME
calendar - reminder service
SYNOPSIS
calendar [ - ] [ n ]
DESCRIPTION
Calendar consults calendar files and prints out lines that contain to‐
day's date or any date up through the nth working day hence (n=1 by de‐
fault). Most American-style month-day dates such as `Dec. 7,' `decem‐
ber 7,' `12/7,' etc., are recognized, but not `7/12'. The symbol `*'
denotes every month as in `* 7' or `*/7'. A year may follow the day,
as in `Dec 7, 84', `Dec 7 1984', or `12/7/84'.
By default, the program consults the file `calendar' in the $HOME di‐
rectory (see sh(1)), or in the current directory if a home directory is
not known. Other calendar files to be consulted may be specified by
lines of the form
#include "file"
in the calendar file. Includes do not nest.
When the `-' argument is present, calendar reminds all users of their
calendar engagements by mail(1). Normally this happens daily in the
wee hours under control of cron(8). Calendars not in home directories,
or recipients not registered as users, may be registered for reminder
service by placing lines of the form `pathname mailname' in file
/usr/lib/calendar.
FILES
calendar files
/usr/lib/calendar
/etc/passwd
/tmp/cal*
egrep, echo, join, sort, sed, mail, /usr/lib/calendar? subprocesses
SEE ALSO
at(1)
BUGS
The mail reminder service doesn't work when it finds less than two cal‐
endars.
Your calendar must be public information for you to get reminder ser‐
vice.
Holidays are what the program says they are.
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