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Today in History, Brought to You by Unix

80 points by thefilmore 8y ago

fosco 8y ago
super neat, anyone know of a way to search through the history using less or other?
- schoen 8y ago
  You might have the underlying data files in /usr/share/calendar or elsewhere; you can try to find out with strace -f -e open calendar Alternatively, you can get a full year's worth of output with calendar -l 366
  - fosco 8y ago
    oh awesome thanks! seems calendar folder for me is in /usr/share/calendar/[files here]
petercooper 8y ago
It's not on my macOS, though I am on 10.12. If it's on macOS now, it means they've added it in the past couple of years which would be interesting. (Edit: Seems like it might just be me :-D)
- bjnord 8y ago
  I have it on High Sierra (10.13)
- ken 8y ago
  It's present on 10.12.6 here, and also 10.6.8, so it doesn't seem to be new.
- M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
  Strange. I'm on 10.12 too, but I have it.
- the_watcher 8y ago
  You have to run the commands making the calendar directory and file first.
- yesenadam 8y ago
  Here on 10.4 :-) Man page: "A calendar command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX." Last line says "BSD June 13, 2002."
bespoke_engnr 8y ago
Oh cool! $ calendar Sep 13* Rosh Chodesh Tishrei (Beginning of the month of Tishrei) Sep 13* First Day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year; 5768; sabbatical) Sep 13 Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry, USA Sep 13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 Sep 13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 Sep 13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788 Sep 13 58� C (136.4� F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 Sep 13 Walter Reed born, 1851 Sep 14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814 Sep 14* Rosh Hashanah (sabbatical) Sep 14 Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua Sep 14 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday Sep 14 The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 Sep 14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 Sep 14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778
stepvhen 8y ago
It comes in the base of OpenBSD, and I use it in lieu of a calDAV server. Being able to quickly jot down an appointment and recall it on the command line is hecka useful.
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peterwwillis 8y ago
If you like Calendar, you might like Fortune. It's usually in the "bsdgames" package (https://www.polyomino.org.uk/computer/software/bsd-games/ https://www.polyomino.org.uk/computer/software/bsd-games/). You can add it to your bashrc file to see a new fortune each time you open your shell. ~$ fortune Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated. ~$ fortune Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. -- Nikita Khrushchev ~$ fortune Distress, n.: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" ~$ fortune The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie! -- Ogden Nash
- S-E-P 8y ago
  on Ubuntu it was through fortune-mod Also there are some pretty funny jokes in here.
- smhenderson 8y ago
  Add a little fun to that by letting a cow tell your fortune with cowsay[1]. fortune | cowsay [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
- contingencies 8y ago
  Or try http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup for a more unix/software design focused fortune database in an implementation that supports color. Interoperable if you are an efficiency die-hard with a color blindness problem.
AdmiralAsshat 8y ago
I think the coolest part of this was looking at the shell script for /usr/bin/calendar. It's personally gratifying to know that even the UNIX guys wrote scripts that shellcheck.net would crap all over: https://imgur.com/o4gCthk https://imgur.com/o4gCthk
bitofhope 8y ago
I would not have thought of using cpp(1) like that. I will be using calendar fron now on. Thanks for the tip.
contingencies 8y ago
Has anyone tried altering this to use the Wikipedia data? eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_13 The most appropriate sections seem to be Events and Holidays and Observances. There are also links to parallel daily databases by the BBC and New York Times.
nineteen999 8y ago
Why anyone would bother using UNIX or its inferior clones (eg. Windows NT) in 2018 is beyond me. The year of the Linux desktop already has been and gone, back in 2001. We are spoiled for choice with a variety of free, modern, microkernel based desktop OS's written in safe languages, such as Rust, Golang, Haskell and Java. Why people persist with this monolithic, unsafe, ancient artifact of the early days of computing is anyone's guess.

80 points by thefilmore 8y ago

fosco 8y ago

super neat, anyone know of a way to search through the history using less or other?

schoen 8y ago
You might have the underlying data files in /usr/share/calendar or elsewhere; you can try to find out with strace -f -e open calendar Alternatively, you can get a full year's worth of output with calendar -l 366
- fosco 8y ago
  oh awesome thanks! seems calendar folder for me is in /usr/share/calendar/[files here]

petercooper 8y ago

It's not on my macOS, though I am on 10.12. If it's on macOS now, it means they've added it in the past couple of years which would be interesting. (Edit: Seems like it might just be me :-D)

bjnord 8y ago
I have it on High Sierra (10.13)
ken 8y ago
It's present on 10.12.6 here, and also 10.6.8, so it doesn't seem to be new.
M_Bakhtiari 8y ago
Strange. I'm on 10.12 too, but I have it.
the_watcher 8y ago
You have to run the commands making the calendar directory and file first.
yesenadam 8y ago
Here on 10.4 :-) Man page: "A calendar command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX." Last line says "BSD June 13, 2002."

bespoke_engnr 8y ago

Oh cool! $ calendar Sep 13* Rosh Chodesh Tishrei (Beginning of the month of Tishrei) Sep 13* First Day of Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year; 5768; sabbatical) Sep 13 Barry Day commemorates the death of Commodore John Barry, USA Sep 13 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China, 1943 Sep 13 Building of Hadrian's Wall begun, 122 Sep 13 British defeat the French at Abraham near Quebec City, 1788 Sep 13 58� C (136.4� F) measured at el Azizia, Libya, 1922 Sep 13 Walter Reed born, 1851 Sep 14 Francis Scott Key writes words to "Star Spangled Banner", 1814 Sep 14* Rosh Hashanah (sabbatical) Sep 14 Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua Sep 14 Frodo & Bilbo's birthday Sep 14 The US Selective Service Act establishes the first peacetime draft, 1940 Sep 14 Salem, Massachusetts, is founded, 1629 Sep 14 Benjamin Franklin is sent to France as an American minister, 1778

stepvhen 8y ago

It comes in the base of OpenBSD, and I use it in lieu of a calDAV server. Being able to quickly jot down an appointment and recall it on the command line is hecka useful.

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peterwwillis 8y ago

If you like Calendar, you might like Fortune. It's usually in the "bsdgames" package (https://www.polyomino.org.uk/computer/software/bsd-games/ https://www.polyomino.org.uk/computer/software/bsd-games/). You can add it to your bashrc file to see a new fortune each time you open your shell. ~$ fortune Overload -- core meltdown sequence initiated. ~$ fortune Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. -- Nikita Khrushchev ~$ fortune Distress, n.: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" ~$ fortune The Preacher, the Politician, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie! -- Ogden Nash

S-E-P 8y ago
on Ubuntu it was through fortune-mod Also there are some pretty funny jokes in here.
smhenderson 8y ago
Add a little fun to that by letting a cow tell your fortune with cowsay[1]. fortune | cowsay [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
contingencies 8y ago
Or try http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup for a more unix/software design focused fortune database in an implementation that supports color. Interoperable if you are an efficiency die-hard with a color blindness problem.

AdmiralAsshat 8y ago

I think the coolest part of this was looking at the shell script for /usr/bin/calendar. It's personally gratifying to know that even the UNIX guys wrote scripts that shellcheck.net would crap all over: https://imgur.com/o4gCthk https://imgur.com/o4gCthk

bitofhope 8y ago

I would not have thought of using cpp(1) like that. I will be using calendar fron now on. Thanks for the tip.

contingencies 8y ago

Has anyone tried altering this to use the Wikipedia data? eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_13 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_13 The most appropriate sections seem to be Events and Holidays and Observances. There are also links to parallel daily databases by the BBC and New York Times.

nineteen999 8y ago

Why anyone would bother using UNIX or its inferior clones (eg. Windows NT) in 2018 is beyond me. The year of the Linux desktop already has been and gone, back in 2001. We are spoiled for choice with a variety of free, modern, microkernel based desktop OS's written in safe languages, such as Rust, Golang, Haskell and Java. Why people persist with this monolithic, unsafe, ancient artifact of the early days of computing is anyone's guess.