cal

display a calendar for a month or year 

Command

SYNOPSIS

cal [month] [year]

DESCRIPTION

The cal command writes a human-readable calendar on the standard output.

With no arguments, cal displays a calendar for the current month of the current year. If one argument is given and it is numeric, cal interprets it as a year (for example, 1991); if a single argument is not numeric, cal interprets it as the name of a month, possibly abbreviated (for example, apr). When two arguments are given, cal assumes that the first argument is the month (either a number from 1 to 12 or a month name) and the second is the year.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

TK_USE_CURRENT_LOCALE 

When set, this environment variable causes months and days of the week to be displayed as defined in the current locale. By default, MKS Toolkit utilities display months and days of the week in English.

DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0 

Successful completion.

1 

Failure due to any of the following:

— an invalid command line argument
— an invalid date
— a year outside the range 1 to 9999 A.D.

PORTABILITY

x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0. All UNIX systems. Windows 2000. Windows XP. Windows Server 2003. Windows Vista. Windows 7. Windows Server 2008.

NOTES

Year numbers less than 100 refer to the early Christian era, not the current century. This command prints the Gregorian calendar, handling September 1752 correctly. Many cultures observe other calendars.

AVAILABILITY

MKS Toolkit for Power Users
MKS Toolkit for System Administrators
MKS Toolkit for Developers
MKS Toolkit for Interoperability
MKS Toolkit for Professional Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers
MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers 64-Bit Edition

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