Cal

cal is a standard progam on Unix that prints an ASCII calendar of the current month or year.

Example

~$ cal
      May 2003
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

See also

• List of popular Unix programs
• NetBSD manual page for cal

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Cal\' (short for California') is also the nickname for the University of California, Berkeley, dating from the days when it was the only University of California campus (1868-1927), prior to the creation of UCLA. It is still frequently used for the U.C. Berkeley sports teams.