How to show a Calendar via the Terminal

Even though all Macs come with a GUI Calendar, many times you don’t want to bring that up just to look for a quick date or you’re working in the Terminal and want to look up a date.

That’s where a handy, small Calendar comes in.  To use it, do the following:

1. Bring up the Terminal Window (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal).
2. At the prompt, type: cal
3. The calendar (pictured above) shows up.
4. That’s it.

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