Mac OS X in a Nutshell

Name

calendar

Synopsis

calendar [option]

Reads your calendar file and displays all lines that contain the current date. The calendar file is like a memo board. You create the file and add entries like the following:

5/4     meeting with design group at 2 pm
may 6   pick up anniversary card on way home

When you run calendar on May 4, the first line is displayed. calendar can be automated by using crontab or at, or by including it in your startup files .profile or .login.

Options

-a

Allow a privileged user to invoke calendar for all users, searching each user’s login directory for a file named calendar. Entries that match are sent to a user via mail. This feature is intended for use via cron. It is not recommended in networked environments with large user bases.

-d MMDD [[ YY ] YY ]

Display lines for the given date.

-f filename

Display calendar items from file filename instead of the default calendar file in your home directory.

-l n

Display calendar items up to n days ahead from the current date as well.

-w n

Forces calendar to skip over weekends. Display calendar items up to n days ahead from the current date only when the current day is a Friday. The default for n is 2.