Basic Linux Terminal Tips and Tricks: Learn to Work Quickly on the Command Line

© Philip Kirkbride 2020

P. KirkbrideBasic Linux Terminal Tips and Trickshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6035-7_17

17. Extras

Philip Kirkbride¹ 

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Montreal, QC, Canada

 

We’ve looked at all kinds of commands and utilities throughout this book. Yet there are several handy commands which defy any category. In this final chapter, we’ll look at fun or useful commands and utilities that don’t necessarily fit into a category.

Cal

Another simple but useful command-line program is cal which provides a simple calendar via the command line. One of the great things about cal is that it comes installed standard on nearly all Linux distributions as it was present in the first edition of Unix and is part of POSIX standard. The simplest use of cal is running it ...