I added the following alias in my .bashrc
alias cal='ncal -bM'
Thank you apsaras.
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Title:
cal -M (start week on Monday) don't work
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The same applies for the option -w (number of weeks)
These two commands work correctly:
ncal -w
cal -N -w
This one does not:
cal -w
there should be a warning in manual, that the option -w applies only for ncal
variation.
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apsaras, what you are seeing is the regression documented in bug 939772.
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Title:
cal -M (start week on Monday) don't work
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A workaround is to use 'ncal -bM'. (Or even 'ncal -b' works on my
system.)
I think what is confusing (apart from having two different commands for
the same thing) is that cal used to have different behaviour. E.g., in
Ubuntu 10.04, cal always started the week with Monday.
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Yes, it's very inconvenient that good old 'cal -m' or 'cal -3m' doesn't
work in Ubuntu.
Are any workarounds e.g. to get sources (where?) and compile right
version of cal which support -m or -M option?
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xintx-ua: I don't know why it uses the cal from bsdmainutil's rather than
util-linux; but it seems pretty arbitrary.
The version in util-linux appears to be a different piece of berkeley
licensed code, but given that there is precisely
nothing Linux specific about cal or even vaguely systemy,
In fact it's really not there. I found that fact on some old page.
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Why does Ubuntu uses FreeBSD variant of cal while Linux variant of cal
actually has the option -m for mondays? (AFAIU it should be in the
util-linux package but it's not).
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Agreed, it's only the documentation that's misleading WRT -M not working
for old cal.
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Yes but both cal -M and ncal -M works perfectly in cygwin (I'm almost
sure, I can check this later). So I think this is problem in code, not
in manpage.
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Hi Ivan,
Hmm this is a bit complicated; there are two things going on - and I'm not
sure which cygwin do:
1) bsdmainutils uses an oldschool Unix trick to use the same binary for
cal and ncal; it decides what to do based on the name of the binary that
it was run as; I'm not sure if cygwin does
My reading is that the manpage isn't that clear about the fact that some
options only work on ncal, not cal. The top of the man page does show
that in the set of options (the same as the usage) - but it's hardly
obvious, so it seems fair that the manpage could do with making it
clearer.
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