calendar - Writes reminder messages to standard output
calendar [-]
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to
industry standards as follows:
calendar: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information
about industry standards and associated tags.
[Tru64 UNIX] Calls calendar for all users who have a
calendar file in their home directories and sends
reminders by mail.
This flag is usually used only by the superuser as
part of daily administrative procedures.
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.
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.
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).
The calendar utility is marked LEGACY in XCU Issue 5.
The following exit values are returned: Successful completion.
An error occurred.
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
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES [Toc] [Back] The following environment variables affect the execution
of calendar: [Tru64 UNIX] If this variable is set, the
calendar command uses its value as the full pathname of a
template file that contains format strings. The strings
consist of field descriptors and text characters which are
used to provide a more robust set of allowable date formats
in different languages using the appropriate settings
of the environment variables LANG or LC_TIME. See environ(5) for more information. The list of allowable field
descriptions is provided in the date(1) reference page.
Provides a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or
null, the corresponding value from the default locale is
used. If any of the internationalization variables contain
an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of
the variables had been defined. If set to a non-empty
string value, overrides the values of all the other internationalization
variables. Determines the locale for the
interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters
(for example, single-byte as opposed to multibyte
characters in input files). Determines the locale for the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to
standard error. Determines the format of date strings
recognized by the calendar command. Determines the location
of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.
Contains user calendar entries. Determines dates. Contains
user information.
Commands: chmod(1), date(1), mail(1), mailx(1)
Environment: environ(5)
Standards: standards(5)
calendar(1)
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