/usr/share/calendar/*
Posted September 20th, 2003 @ 10:50pm by Erik J. Barzeski
cat /usr/share/calendar/* | grep `date +"%m/%d"`
I've added that to my .tcshrc file. Good stuff. FWIW, my birthday is a pretty damn boring day:
[10:51pm iacas@Gaia:~] % cat /usr/share/calendar/* | grep '03/23' 03/23* Maundy Thursday (3 days before Easter) 03/23 Pakistan Day in Pakistan
Posted 20 Sep 2003 at 10:57pm #
No joke, today is my friggin birthday as well. I rocked it out last night so ampretty whipped today. peace
Posted 20 Sep 2003 at 11:01pm #
Yeah, but as you can see, my birthday is March 23. 🙂
Posted 20 Sep 2003 at 11:04pm #
Another tip! You can save 260k of useless data on your disk with
sudo rm -rf /usr/share/calendar/*
Enjoy!
Posted 20 Sep 2003 at 11:07pm #
i must still be drunk! my bad
Posted 21 Sep 2003 at 12:46am #
Beat this one:
"03/13 "Striptease" introduced, Paris, 1894"
🙂
Posted 21 Sep 2003 at 3:40am #
Why not use the calendar(1) util? 🙂
calendar -f /usr/share/calendar/calendar.all
Posted 21 Sep 2003 at 9:57am #
In Panther this should be:
cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.* | grep `date +"%m/%d"
unless you really want to read the calendar in german, russian, or french...
Posted 21 Sep 2003 at 2:19pm #
On This Day
Erik Barzeski’s blog has some discussion of how to use the calendar tool to print out timely holidays and historical events....
Posted 22 Sep 2003 at 12:19pm #
"12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972"
1972 happens to be the right year 😉