From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 04:16:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AAF61065674 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 04:16:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from extmail-01.people.net.au (extmail-01.people.net.au [202.154.123.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B749C8FC0A for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 04:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 15714 invoked from network); 11 May 2010 04:16:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.phoenix) (218.215.144.203) by extmail-01.people.net.au with SMTP; 11 May 2010 04:16:28 -0000 Received: by smtp.phoenix (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 32BCC177E7; Tue, 11 May 2010 14:16:28 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:16:27 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: David Allen Message-ID: <20100511041627.GA87743@ozzmosis.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5(1) and cal(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 04:16:31 -0000 On Mon 2010-05-10 17:35:45 UTC-0800, David Allen (the.real.david.allen@gmail.com) wrote: > 1. Why doesn't cal(1) hilight the current day? Hell, some days I'm > not even sure what day or week it is, so after typing 'cal', I have to > type in 'date', and then sit there for a few seconds to interpret what > I'm looking at. Of course, that isn't always successful, so I > typically end up reaching for my mouse and hilight the date manually. > But after doing that I'm just as annoyed by not knowing the date as > I'm annoyed by the behavior of the cal utility and the extra work I'm > forced to do. cal(1) is pretty old. I suspect it was written partly so the output could be printed out on paper. /usr/ports/deskutils/cal might be more your taste. > 2. Why doesn't md5(1) have a "check" option? Seems to me requiring a > manual inspection is error-prone at best, and makes scripting unecessarily > complicated. If you're comparing two files, cmp(1) might be more suitable.