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From: "Ángel González" <ingenit@zoho.com>
To: Evgenii Sovetkin <e.sovetkin@gmail.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in the cal
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:19:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56589098.1080209@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151127142227.GA28400@bigbear.stochastik.rwth-aachen.de>

On 27/11/15 15:22, Evgenii Sovetkin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> just noticed a funny behaviour of the cal program...
>
> % cal -n2
> Produces calendar for November and December.
>
> % cal -n3
> Produces calendar for October, November and December.
>
> % cal -n4
> Produces calendar for November, December, January and February.
>
> I don't think it is the expected output. The version of cal is from
> util-linux 2.27.

Thanks for your report, Evgenii.

The man page says:
>        -n , --months number
>               Display number of months, starting from the month containing the date.

So the problem is that
 > cal -n 3
 > cal --months 3

is acting as
 > cal -3


Maybe the command line parser is getting a bit confused.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-27 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-27 14:22 bug in the cal Evgenii Sovetkin
2015-11-27 17:19 ` Ángel González [this message]
2015-11-28  0:15   ` Karel Zak

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