ARCHIVED: In Unix, how can I send myself reminders of events?

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In Unix, you can create a file in the home directory of your account called calendar. It should look similar to the following:

  12/6/99 St. Nick's day, stuff those stockings!
  4/1/00 Your shoe's untied!  APRIL FOOL!!!
  Dec 1  Pay December rent!

Each reminder must be one line only. On most systems, these reminders are sent by a system process called cron on a daily basis, usually in the early hours of the morning. The cron process checks the top directory of all accounts on a system. If your top directory contains a calendar file with a line dated the same as the next business day, then cron sends you the entire line in a mail message.

To find out more about this feature, at the Unix shell prompt, enter:

  man calendar

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Last modified on 2018-01-18 09:19:53.