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bsdmainutils package

calendar: how to manage multiple calendar files?

Bug #1697448 reported by G.M.
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Bug Description

Hi,

I'm using BSD's "calendar" to print dates of interest at each opening of a terminal (in fact, of a shell...).

As you can guess, I need the number of entries to be as low as possible in order not to pollute my screen.

For the moment, I use "calendar.french", but there are too many entries there. I'd like to use only the files "/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.fetes and "/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.jferies".

I've tried with multiple "-f" options, but then "calendar" defaults to its basic behaviour: using "calendar.all".

My first remark is the following: I think there's a bug here since it does not warn the user that there is an error in parsing the command line.

My second remark is : does anyone knows an option/trick I could use to open multiple calendar files? I've tried the following, but it does not work:
calendar -A 3 -B 3 <(cat /usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.{fetes,jferies})

Thanks

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G.M. (sexxxenator) wrote :

By the way, I don't know why, but now I have an additional line break after each printed entry. How can I remove that ?

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G.M. (sexxxenator) wrote :

In reply to my own question, I've found the following dirty hack:

 ( calendar -A 3 -B 1 -f ~/.myclendar ; \
      calendar -A 1 -B 1 -f /usr/share/calendar/xx_xx/calendar.yyy ; \
      calendar -A 7 -B 0 -f /usr/share/calendar/xx_xx/calendar.zzz) | sed '/^$/d' | sort -k1,1 -k2,2

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