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almanac -- Command Print an almanac entry for this date almanac [month day] The command almanac prints on the standard output an almanac entry of noteworthy births, deaths, and events that occurred on this date. month and day give the date whose listing you wish to see. month must be the name of the month. For example, the command almanac November 23 prints something like the following on your screen: BIRTHS: 1221: Alfonso X (el Sabio), monarch and music collector, Toledo. 1876: Manuel de Falla, composer, Cadiz. 1887: William Henry Pratt (Boris Karloff), actor. 1888: Adolph "Harpo" Marx, comedian & musician, New York City. DEATHS: 1585: Thomas Tallis, composer, Greenwich. EVENTS: 1923: Height of German inflation: 4.2 trillion marks to the dollar. 1935: First "Porky Pig" cartoon premieres. If you do not supply any arguments on the command, almanac prints an almanac listing for today. almanac reads its information from the files almanac.birth, almanac.death, and almanac.event, which are kept in directory /usr/games/lib. Each has the same format: the date encoded by the first three letters of the name of the month (with an initial capital letter), followed by the day of the month, followed by the body of the entry. For example: Nov 23 1221: Alfonso X (el Sabio), monarch and music collector, Toledo. You are encouraged to modify these files to suit your tastes and interests. See Also commands Notes almanac does not check for bogus dates before it reads its data files. It also is quite rigid in how it expects its data base to be laid out. The data files reflect the tastes of the person who compiled them, and can be rather idiosyncratic.