Thanks, I had the <tab> character incorrectly specified. I had had calendar working sometime back and could remember everything it required. ----- Original message ----- From: "Erik Christiansen via luv-main" <luv-main@luv.asn.au> To: luv-main@luv.asn.au Cc: Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: Appointment reminder app Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:22:33 +1000 On 12.09.18 00:14, Lindsay W via luv-main wrote:
I am looking for a simply appointment reminder app, I am NOT interested in anything online. As well as normal appointments I would like to be able to put in events that occur on particular day of the month, such as "2nd saturday, Local market". BSD Calendar would do exactly what I want but i cannot get it to print anything. When the command is run it does read the "calendar" file (checked that with ltrace), but never prints anything. Has anybody got BSD calendar to work, what should the data file look like.
In the debian version of BSD calendar, the date is only recognized when it occurs at the beginning of a line. Also, it will only display lines that use a <tab> character to separate the date and description, or that begin with a <tab>. Your version may be equally modern, with similar requirements? For many years I have used nothing else, without any problems. Piping its output to /usr/bin/mail delivers it where It'll be read. There may be a more elegant way to put the reminder in the subject line, but this does it for me: x=`calendar -l 7 -f ~/Personal/domestic/calendar` ( [ -n "$x" ] && echo "$x" | mail -s "$x" erik ) The 7 day lookahead gives me time to buy a birthday card or gift, adding a reminder each day. In my case that is more effective than one reminder 7 days on an earlier date.
It would not be to difficult to write a simple app to do this but SURELY there must be something out there, hmmmmm a look at the source of BSD Calendar would probably be usefull.
Nah, BSD calendar works like a bought one. And with a short alias, I can vim my reminder calendar instantly and efficiently. A modeline of: vim:noexpandtab list protects that file from my editor tab eliminating default, and highlights tabs - reminding me that they're necessary in the calendar file. Erik _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main