Tips (WAS: Re: [thelist] Javascript:self..... Tip here)

[Garrett Coakley]

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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:35:44 -0500 Koutoulas, Pete wrote:

> Which brings up a thought. Does Evolt have a document or series of
> documents that sets forth some basic knowledge that everyone who calls
> himself or herself a webmaster should know? That would be an
> interesting thing to have.

Not documents as such, but it's worth prowling through the tip harvester
and picking up the collected nuggets of wisdom supplied by the
community:

http://lists.evolt.org/index.cfm/a/harvest/

For info on how to supply tips for the harvester see Point 2 of thelist
guidelines:

 http://lists.evolt.org/index.cfm/a/listinfo

G.


<tip author="Garrett Coakley" type="*nix 'cal' command">

Most *nix systems come with the 'cal' command which is a simple command
line calendar. If you call it without any arguments it outputs the
current month.

[garrett at cincinnati] garrett $ cal
    January 2003
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
          1  2  3  4
 5  6  7  8  9 10 11
[snip]


You can also specify a particular month/year by calling it like so (Oct
2005)

[garrett at cincinnati] garrett $ cal 10 2005
    October 2005
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                   1
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8
[snip]


'cal' also comes with a very handy Julian date switch, so for instances,
if you wanted to find out how many days will have elapsed in the year on
the first day of October:

[garrett at cincinnati] garrett $ cal -j 10 2003
        October 2003
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
            274 275 276 277
[snip]


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