[ale] Linux shell process

[Dennis Ruzeski]

Damn! That's a really cool tip. Now I'll say that holy shit! What an odd
and obscure thing to want for an admin skill (assuming that this was what
they were looking for..)



On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Chuck Peters <cp at axs.org> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Jim Butler <jimbutler1234567890 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Suppose you have a list of 10 birthdays for 10 different friends, and
>> you wanted to create a task from within a bash shell environment that
>> would alert you as to when each friend's birthday came around. How would
>> you do it?
>>
>
> I would create a ~/.calendar file. Then I would receive an email reminding
> me.
>
> You could also add the command calendar -w 7 in your .profile to display
> any birthdays in the next 7 days on login.  See man calendar.   I think I
> first learned about calendar using BSDi.
>
>
> Chuck
>
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