Highlight today in Mac's cal

Question

Every Mac comes with cal which shows a simple calendar of current month. Output is something like this:

   February 2014
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
                   1
 2  3  4  5  6  7  8
 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28

I was wondering if we can use some sed and date magic and highlight today's number using ANSI escape sequences. I haven't tried anything because I don't know much about sed.

`cal` from bsdmainutils 8.2.3 already seems to be highlighting the current date. — Zelda, Feb 19 '14 at 06:33

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '15 at 00:38

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gcal(http://www.gnu.org/software/gcal/) is available from Homebrew and displays the current month with current day highlighted when invoked without any other args.

answered Sep 05 '15 at 00:38

Eoin Kelly

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Ketan Maheshwari · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-20T21:12:59.097

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Try this:

$ cal | grep -w -A4 -B6 $(date +%d)

-A4 and -B6 flags of grep will print 4 lines after and 6 lines before the matching line.

edited Feb 20 '14 at 21:12

answered Feb 19 '14 at 02:39

Ketan Maheshwari

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This didn't work for me. For today, it printed this: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=gt0FrjF3 – Mohsen Feb 20 '14 at 20:36
I tried this: `cal | grep -A4 -B5 --color "\s$(date +%d)\s"` and gave me good results. But I'm not sure if that works for first day of month or alike – Mohsen Feb 20 '14 at 20:41
@Mohsen Updated answer. This should work for all days. – Ketan Maheshwari Feb 20 '14 at 20:43
Ok, works good now. You might want to add `--color` flag because Mac's grep don't highlight by default – Mohsen Feb 20 '14 at 20:45
@Mohsen Thanks for the update. On my mac, I do not seem to need the `--color` flag. It works as it is. – Ketan Maheshwari Feb 20 '14 at 20:47

Highlight today in Mac's cal

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