Calendar of current month with today's date highlighted

Posted in Productivity by matt 812 days ago

This Geeklet displays a calendar of the current month, with today's date highlighted with ##. The font needs to be fixed width like Courier for it to display properly.

Command:

cal | sed "s/^/ /;s/$/ /;s/ $(date +%e) / $(date +%e | sed 's/./#/g') /"

Font: Courier Colour: White Size: 13

Geeklet files to download

calendarmonth.glet

Comments

monkeyslikebananas 813 days ago

You can add the next month with:

cal -m ` echo `date +%m` + 1 | bc | sed 's/13/1/g'` | sed 's/^/ /g'

chris 812 days ago

Try

cal | perl -wne 'BEGIN{chomp($d = `date "+%e"`)} if (/^ *d/) {s/b$db/"#" x length($d)/e; s/d/ /g; s/#+/$d/g; print}'

Then colour date, and superimpose on simple cal.

Otaku 631 days ago

the next month dose not work..

can anyone post how to add the next month underneath?

mac os x10.6.3

jqrd 594 days ago

To add the next month, append the following:

; cal `date -v+1m "+%m"` `date -v+1m "+%Y"`

I added the previous month and the two next months:

cal `date -v-1m "+%m"` `date -v-1m "+%Y"` ; cal | sed "s/^/ /;s/$/ /;s/ $(date +%e) / $(date +%e | sed 's/./=/g') /" | sed "s/^ //;s/ $//" ; cal `date -v+1m "+%m"` `date -v+1m "+%Y"` ; cal `date -v+2m "+%m"` `date -v+2m "+%Y"`

A horizontal layout is proving difficult, though...

getheetoanunnery 311 days ago

Did you ever find a horizontal layout solution? I'd really appreciate a fix.

I tweaked your code to add only the previous and next month, however instead of a " ## " marking the day, the current day is highlighted in red;

cal `date -v-1m "+%m"` `date -v-1m "+%Y"` ; cal | sed -E '1,$'"s/ ($(date +%e))( |$)/ $(echo '�33[1;31m')1$(echo '�33[0m')2/" ; cal `date -v+1m "+%m"` `date -v+1m "+%Y"`