CAL(1) User Commands CAL(1)
NAME
cal - display a calendar
SYNOPSIS
cal [ [
month]
year]
DESCRIPTION
The
cal utility writes a Gregorian calendar to standard output. If
the
year operand is specified, a calendar for that year is written.
If no operands are specified, a calendar for the current month is
written.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
month Specify the month to be displayed, represented as a decimal
integer from
1 (January) to
12 (December). The default is
the current month.
year Specify the year for which the calendar is displayed,
represented as a decimal integer from
1 to
9999. The default
is the current year.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See
environ(7) for descriptions of the following environment
variables that affect the execution of
cal:
LANG,
LC_ALL,
LC_CTYPE,
LC_TIME,
LC_MESSAGES, and
NLSPATH.
TZ Determine the timezone used to calculate the value of the
current month.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See
attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Standard |
+--------------------+-----------------+
SEE ALSO
attributes(7),
environ(7),
standards(7)NOTES
An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752. That is the month
11 days were skipped to make up for lack of leap year adjustments. To
see this calendar, type:
cal 9 1752
The command
cal 83 refers to the year 83, not 1983.
The year is always considered to start in January.
March 7, 2017 CAL(1)
