REMINDER(1) REMINDER(1) LOCAL NAME reminder SYNOPSIS reminder [-ukdate] [-usdate] [-days n] [--help] [--verbose] [--version] filename... DESCRIPTION Reminder is a program to remind you of important dates. It simply reads in files which are given on the command line and compares today's date with the dates supplied in the files. If it finds any dates within a specified number of days from today it will print a reminder message for each one. The input file is very simple, it contains any dates that you need reminding of. One date per line. Any lines beginning with # are treated as comments and are ignored. Examples are given below: # This is a comment 1, 1, $New Year's day 12, 25, $Christmas day # This is another comment The first number is the month, second number is the day, the remainder is used as a description. You must preceed the description with the $ character. If no description is given then "Mystery" is used instead. I find it useful to put reminder ~/.reminder in my startup script so that it gets run every time I login. Then I have a file called .reminder in my home directory and fill it with all my relatives' birthdays, etc. OPTIONS -ukdate Specifies that British date format (day/month/year) be used for all output. This does not alter the order used in the input files however. This is the default. -usdate Specifies that US date format (month/day/year) be used for all output. This does not alter the order used in the input files however. -days n Specifies the number of days warning to be given for all dates in the input files. n must be a number between 1 and 365 (inclusive). The default number is 10 days. --help Displays usage information. - 1 - Formatted: April 19, 2024 REMINDER(1) REMINDER(1) LOCAL --verbose Instructs the program to display more information as it executes to allow the user to see what it is doing. --version Displays the version number of the program. VERSION This manual page refers to reminder v1.02 (26/05/1996). BUGS AND LIMITATIONS No bugs known at present, if you find any please report them to the author, see below. There is currently a limit of 255 characters on the length of an input line. TODO Remove the limit of 255 characters on the length of an input line. Add the ability to specify a date like 'every Friday' or 'the first of every month' using wildcards, for example. AUTHOR Charles O. Gamble gambcl@cogamble.demon.co.uk CharlesGamble@bcs.org.uk - 2 - Formatted: April 19, 2024