Use the Terminal to Display a Calendar in Ubuntu

Using Ubuntu’s Terminal, you can quickly pull up a calendar of any month or year

1. Open a Terminal window.
2. To view a single month, execute the following Terminal command (make sure to input both the desired month and year):

cal december 2008


To view an entire year, execute the following Terminal command (make sure to input the desired year):

cal 2009


To view last month, this month and next month, execute the following Terminal command:

cal -3



Display calendar in alternative layout for calendar

The alternative layout of the calendar can be displayed using ncal command.

Command:

ncal june 2009