Am 30.06.20 um 10:59 schrieb Martin Husemann: > 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).
Well, how would you use date(1) to return the number of days in any given month, for example? Michael
