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cal — Display a calendar with the current day highlighted. More information: <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/

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Problem

How to use the cal command: Display a calendar with the current day highlighted. More information: <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?cal>.

Solution

cal — Display a calendar with the current day highlighted. More information: <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?cal>.

Display a calendar for the current month:

cal

Display a calendar for a specific year:

cal {{year}}

Display a calendar for a specific month and year:

cal {{month}} {{year}}

Display the whole calendar for the current year:

cal -y

Don't [h]ighlight today and display [3] months spanning the date:

cal -h -3 {{month}} {{year}}

Display the 2 months [B]efore and 3 [A]fter a specific [m]onth of the current year:

cal -A 3 -B 2 {{month}}

Display [j]ulian days (starting from one, numbered from January 1):

cal -j

Code Snippets

Display a calendar for the current month

cal

Display a calendar for a specific year

cal {{year}}

Display a calendar for a specific month and year

cal {{month}} {{year}}

Display the whole calendar for the current year

cal -y

Don't [h]ighlight today and display [3] months spanning the date

cal -h -3 {{month}} {{year}}

Context

tldr-pages: freebsd/cal

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