Fun with Shell Scripting
February 15, 2014For today, I wanted to include a calendar here to kinda mark when I started.
I defaulted to use the simplest shell script that I thought of : $ CAL
Oops, CAPS lock was turned on. It gave me an interesting result with the days oriented vertically, not what I wanted though.
Try 2 : $ cal
Hmm, I thought it would highlight "today". I was suprised to find out that cal in OSX doesn't highlight today by default.
So, here's where I learnt a cool new script to make highlighting work!
$cal | grep -C3 --color " $(date +%-d)"
Oh, I created an alias for it as well.
$alias today='cal | grep -C3 --color " $(date +%-d)"'