Cal

Cal is a command which displays the calendar for the month and the year.

Syntax

cal [month] [year]

[month]

Specifies the month for you want the calendar to be displayed. Must be the numeric representation of the month. For example February is 2 and November is 11.

[year]

Specifies the year that you want to display.

Examples

$ cal

displays the calendar for current month.

$ cal 11 2001

displays the calendar for November of 2001.

Provided by

Most (all?) Linux distributions incorporate this from the [util-linux] project.

See also

• date