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Show a calendar with today's date highlighted

Raw

cal | GREP_COLOR='1;32' grep -w -A4 -B6 --color "$(date +%e)"

Alias with

alias today="cal | GREP_COLOR='1;32' grep -w -A4 -B6 --color "$(date +%e)"
# or add to .aliases file
(echo ""; echo alias cal | GREP_COLOR='1;32' grep -w -A4 -B6 --color "$(date +%e)"') >> ~/.aliases

bwhitman commented Dec 6, 2015

this just changed my life, 👍

Author

roc commented Dec 6, 2015

@bwhitman It's a pretty big deal I know