1cal(1)                           User Commands                          cal(1)
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NAME

6       cal - display a calendar
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SYNOPSIS

9       cal [ [month] year]
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DESCRIPTION

13       The  cal utility writes a Gregorian calendar to standard output. If the
14       year operand is specified, a calendar for that year is written.  If  no
15       operands are specified, a calendar for the current month is written.
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OPERANDS

18       The following operands are supported:
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20       month    Specify  the  month  to be displayed, represented as a decimal
21                integer from 1 (January) to 12 (December). The default is  the
22                current month.
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25       year     Specify  the  year for which the calendar is displayed, repre‐
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

31       See  environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
32       that affect the execution of  cal:  LANG,  LC_ALL,  LC_CTYPE,  LC_TIME,
33       LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
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35       TZ    Determine the timezone used to calculate the value of the current
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EXIT STATUS

40       The following exit values are returned:
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ATTRIBUTES

49       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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54       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
55       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
56       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
57       │Availability                 │SUNWesu                      │
58       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
59       │Interface Stability          │Standard                     │
60       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

63       calendar(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)
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NOTES

66       An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752. That is the month 11
67       days  were skipped to make up for lack of leap year adjustments. To see
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75       The command cal 83 refers to the year 83, not 1983.
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82SunOS 5.11                        1 Feb 1995                            cal(1)
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