May 26, 2004

[Cool Calendar Terminal Trick]

If you're comfortable with the terminal, try out the following cool BSD-like trick on your OS X machine:

more /usr/share/calendar/calendar.* | grep `date +"%m/%d"`

Suddenly, you have your own "This Day in History." It gives a synopsis, for the day, of important events -- holidays, famous birthdays, etc. Today's output wasn't that inspiring, but who knows what tomorrow will bring!

05/26 Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@FreeBSD.org> born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, 1968
05/26 Congress sets first immigration quotas, 1924
05/26 Al Jolson born, 1886

Posted by Eingang at May 26, 2004 07:27 PM | [Trackback]

Comments

nice. very nice

Posted by: juicymixx on July 12, 2005 01:38 PM

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