On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 10:53:38AM +0200, Michael Siegel wrote: > Also, to the best of my knowledge, parsing the output of cal(1) is about > the only method to get certain calendar information in Unix shell > scripts.
Now that makes me curious - can you give an example? I think almost always "date +format" is a lot easier, and at quick thought there was no information I could think of that cal(1) gives that would not be available that way (plus maybe some shell arithmetic expressions). Martin
