Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:11:52 -0400 From: jhell <jhell@DataIX.net> To: PJ <af.gourmet@videotron.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conky calendar Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910100609310.75184@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> In-Reply-To: <4AD04D6E.5000309@videotron.ca> References: <4AD04D6E.5000309@videotron.ca>
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 05:01, af.gourmet@ wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I found on the
> Net; it doesn't display quite correctly.
> It should have brackets around the current date, but I can't figure out
> what is not functioning correctly:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> cal | awk 'NR>2' | sed -e 's/ / /g' -e 's/[^ ] /& /g' -e 's/..*/ &
> /' -e 's/ \('`date | awk '{print $2}'`'\) /\['`date | awk '{print $2}'`'\]/'
>
> Change the NR>2 to NR1 and the printout includes the days of the week:
> Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
> 1 2 3
> 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
> 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
> 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
>
> Since today is the 10th, we should be seeing [10] - but we are not.
> Also, there is the problem of the 1,2,3 not showing in the right days -
> in conky this can be fixed by not using xft... but then I'm not sure of
> how to change the font size... perhaps the xorg screen size is the
> default ???
>
> I'm not very good at programming, but I did look up the man pages for
> cal, sed and awk but it is a little complicated for my little brain.
> Can anyone help, please?
>
Where did you Saturday go to ? I would love for some of my Thursdays and
sometimes Fridays to just disappear like this but Saturday ? come on now
what is the world coming to ? ;)
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