md5(1) and cal(1)

[andrew clarke]

On Mon 2010-05-10 17:35:45 UTC-0800, David Allen (the.real.david.allen at gmail.com) wrote:

> 1.  Why doesn't cal(1) hilight the current day?  Hell, some days I'm
> not even sure what day or week it is, so after typing 'cal', I have to
> type in 'date', and then sit there for a few seconds to interpret what
> I'm looking at.  Of course, that isn't always successful, so I
> typically end up reaching for my mouse and hilight the date manually.
> But after doing that I'm just as annoyed by not knowing the date as
> I'm annoyed by the behavior of the cal utility and the extra work I'm
> forced to do.

cal(1) is pretty old.  I suspect it was written partly so the output
could be printed out on paper.

/usr/ports/deskutils/cal might be more your taste.

> 2.  Why doesn't md5(1) have a "check" option?  Seems to me requiring a
> manual inspection is error-prone at best, and makes scripting unecessarily
> complicated.

If you're comparing two files, cmp(1) might be more suitable.