Command Line Calendaring: A Comparison of Popular CLI Calendar Programs

This is slightly harder to read, but supposedly has the advantage that the full year's calendar, by putting four months in each row, fits in a standard sized terminal. In fact, it does not, you have to remove blank lines from the output for it to fit in 24 lines: ncal 2017 grep -v '^$'. The original version of ncal did not have these blank lines. In any case, it takes less vertical space than the traditional calendar output - 2676, vs 3566 for cal.

Although these are GUI calendars you can still call them from the terminal. They allow you to navigate through the months and years. They are designed to be called from your Bash scripts but like all Bash commands you can call them from the terminal too.

Command Line Calendaring

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calcurse is a calendar and scheduling application for the command line.It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks. Aconfigurable notification system reminds user of upcoming deadlines,the curses based interface can be customized to suit user needs and avery powerful set of command line options can be used to filter andformat appointments, making it suitable for use in scripts.

The Calendar Checking Tool for Outlook (CalCheck) is a command-line program that checks the Microsoft Outlook calendar for problems. The tool opens an Outlook messaging profile to access the Outlook calendar. It performs various checks on general settings, such as permissions, free/busy publishing, delegate configuration, and automatic booking. Then, each item in the Outlook calendar folder is checked for known problems that can cause unexpected behavior, such as meetings that seem to be missing.

The Enterprise version of the Assistant is a command line version that can be scripted, and is recommended to perform Outlook calender checking on multiple devices and devices that you can't access immediately.

As someone that loves using UI tools, I do pride myself in learning how to accomplish the same feats from command line. Don't believe me? Check out my Command Line tutorials section -- I guarantee you'll learn quite a bit.

Absolutely, many advanced Mac users are on the platform because of the unix underpinnings. I know tons of Linux converts that have moved exclusively to the Mac for OS X command line combined with the excellent hardware.

I have always interested in historical dates and determining what actual day of the week an event occurred on. What day of the week was the Declaration of Independence signed? What day of the week was I born on? What day of the week did the 4th of July in 1876 occur on? I know that you can use search engines to answer many of these questions. But, did you know that the Linux command line can supply those answers too?

You can show the whole year with $ cal -y, or use $ cal -jy to display Julian dates beginning with 1 on January 1 and ending on December 31 with 365 or 366 if it's a leap year. You can also figure out slightly more complicated dates with the related ncal command. For example, $ ncal -e displays the date of Easter in the current year.

Like most command-line tools, the calendar tool is composable with pipes or other functions. If you would like a print out of the entire year then pipe the calendar command to a text file, you can simply run $ cal 2016 > YearlyCalendar.txt. The text file can be opened in any text editor and edited or saved to a PDF and shared.

The date command in Linux can display the date in several formats, or to set the date on your computer's Linux operating system. The date command can be combined in shell scripts to, for example, easily append a date to file you are editing. Along with the calendar date, the time can also be specified. Here are a few examples.

Very useful article. Indeed, the date command, particularly the GNU date command is one of the most powerful open source utilities. One hidden treasure or feature of the date command is -d or --date option, where it accepts free format human readable date string.

I've been using Linux since the late 1990's. My first production server was 2001. I don't consider myself a master of the command line in any sens, I'm learning about its nuances all the time. Thank you for the compliment. Codeacademy has a good introduction to the command line, -the-command-line.

The latest example of new-meets-old: the gcalcli command-line interface to Google's online calendar application. It's an open-source utility that lets people read and update Google calendars--either their own or shared ones.

Sure, a lot of people like to point and click, and this whole Internet thing got a big kick in the pants in the 1990s when the World Wide Web put a slick interface on a previously textual experience. But there is a lot of utility to be had from command lines when it comes to programming.

Text is the most flexible programming medium for whipping up scripts to automatically check a calendar at a specified time of the day. You also can show agenda items automatically in a system monitor such as Conky or quickly add calendar items from the command line without having to fire up a Web browser.

For Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting, the external batch command line scheduler supports only one batch request. If you attempt to process multiple batches, only the batch in the first line is executed by the external batch command-line scheduler.

How can I retrieve calendar events from my Google account (multiple calendars, but I only care about ones shared with my account) from the command line with curl? That is, the curl command, not PHP or any other language library. I don't want a library. I don't want anything that requires me to be running a web server somewhere that OAuth can make requests to. I would just like to know what sequence of actual HTTP(S) calls will enable me to type a command at my terminal window and get calendar events back on stdout and not have to open a browser at any point.

The davadmin command requires you to authenticate with a user name and password to be able to communicate with the server or database. You can use the davadmin passfile operation to store the necessary passwords in an encrypted wallet for use by subsequent davadmin commands. If you do not store passwords in the wallet, then you must enter them by using a no-echo prompt on the command line. See "davadmin passfile" for more information on how to create a file to store passwords.

option is one or more command-line options that identify information that the operation needs and the specifics of what the operation does. For example, some options provide connection parameters, and the -o option specifies a configuration parameter that the config operation may list or modify. All options are optional if the clifile is used and accessed through the environment variable DAVADMIN_CLIFILE.

The default action for most commands is list. The default is used when you do not specify the action. For example, the following command lists the value of the base.ldapinfo.cachesize configuration parameter.

When you run the davadmin command, any option that you include on the command line takes precedence over any like option in the clifile or the davadmin.properties file. Use of the clifile or the davadmin.properties file is mutually exclusive. If you use the clifile, use it for any option that is not on the command line. If you run the davadmin command as the administrative user and do not supply a clifile, the davadmin.properties file is used for any option that is not on the command line.

Get passwords from the password file. You use the The davadmin passfile command to create the password file. You can add passwords for the GlassFish Server administrative user, the migration server user, the database, and the document store.

File with bootstrap information that you use to specify command-line options so that they do not have to be entered at the command line. Each line in the bootstrap file is in the form property=value. All property names and values are case-sensitive, typically lower-case. Some commands also have a -f, --file option, which provides additional batch input specific to those commands. For possible properties see the "Clifile Properties" table.

Required unless all necessary information is provided on the command line or in the davadmin.properties file. See "Ways to Provide Options" for more information on priority order of options, the clifile and the davadmin.properties file. A path to the clifile file can also be specified by the DAVADMIN_CLIFILE environment variable.

GlassFish administration port (JMX connector port) and MySQL Server or Oracle Database port for db commands. The GlassFish administration port can be found in the domain's domain.xml file or in the Administration Console (Configuration->Admin Service->system).

Lists version of davadmin utility. (Checks the local package version on disk, which could be different than what has been deployed to GlassFish Server, for example, in the case where a patch was added but the init-config command has not yet been run.)

Performs configuration operations, such as print a particular option, set a particular option, or list all options. Some configuration operations require that you restart Calendar Server. The davadmin config modify command informs you if the change requires you to restart Calendar Server to take effect. To stop and start Calendar Server, see "Stopping and Starting Calendar Server Services" for details.

Lists properties of an account. The list command displays managed calendars for an account. These are all the calendars for which the account is the owner or has "all" rights. Also, list displays the users' subscribed calendars list. list is the default action, if it is not included on the command line, for most commands. You can use the davadmin account list command without the -a option to list all current users in the Calendar Server database. You can get either a simple list, which contains one user per line, or a detailed list, which contains complete information about the user's account. The options affected by this change are -a, -f, -B, and -v. 2ff7e9595c