One of the most useful commands I use on Unix is the cal command. It outputs a simple text based calendar along the lines of:
garan@fastlap:~$ cal
March 2007
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
garan@fastlap:~$
and will take command line arguments like this:
garan@fastlap:~$ cal 01 1973
January 1973
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
garan@fastlap:~$
How can such a simple command get any better? Now today's date is highlighted using an inverse block which means I don't have to type date before typing cal.
