[Remind-Fans] Printing next month's calendar

[Brian Medley]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:52:29PM -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:

> I have a cron entry
>     0 3 1 * *       /usr/local/bin/rempr
> that prints a lovely calendar on the first of each month.
> 
> I'd prefer to do it sooner, say, on 12/23.
> But that requires an argument to rempr, eg,
>     rempr Jan 2003
> 
> I could figure the arguments by mucking with the date command
> and some elaborate case statement to convert Dec into Jan
> and 2002 into 2003, but that seems tedious.
> 
> Is there an easier way within the capabilities of remind?
> 
> Something like
>     rempr "now + 7d"
> would be nice.

Not sure of the date format needed by rempr, but something similar to the
following might do what you want:

0 3 1 * *       /usr/local/bin/rempr `perl -MPOSIX -e 'print strftime "\%Y\-\%m\-\%d", \
localtime(time + 7*86_400)'`


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