vcal(1)

✨ vcal(1) — Display the data in a vcalendar or icalendar file ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the vcal(1) page. This is your calendar-data peekaboo tool, and yes, it's giving main character energy. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vcal — Display the data in a vcalendar or icalendar file

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

vcal [options] <files>

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so vcal parses a file for a vcalendar or icalendar record and displays the selected fields from the record. It's literally reading the calendar data and serving you the chosen bits. ✨

Normally, vcal uses the specified files as absolute or relative paths, depending on how they are given on the command line. However, if the -mh flag is given, the current MH mailbox is searched for the specified files. The mhpath command is used to determine the absolute path to the files. If a single dash is given as a filename, then the vcalendar data will be read from standard input. So a single - is the whole "standard input" moment, iykyk. 🫶

vcal takes options to allow selective display of the calendar data. If no options are given, then it is as if the -start, -end, and -summary options are given. No cap: no options = start + end + summary, automatic. 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

vcal takes the following options:

• -all — Show all calendar data. This differs from -raw in that the data are formatted, while -raw gives the data as they are read from the file. formatted era vs raw era, got it.
• -chair — Show the meeting chair.
• -description — Show the event description.
• -end — Show the event end time.
• -location — Show the meeting locations.
• -optional — Show the optional participants.
• -organizer — Show the meeting organizer.
• -participants — Show the required and optional participants. The participants are displayed in these two groups.
• -required — Show the required participants.
• -scheduled — Show the event scheduled time.
• -start — Show the event start time.
• -summary — Show the event summary information.
• -raw — Show all calendar data. This differs from -all in that the data are displayed as they are read from the file, while -all formats the data. raw data, no glow-up.
• -mh — The current MH mailbox is searched for the specified files.
• -help — Display a usage message and exit.
• -Version — Display the program version and exit.

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🙏 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 🙏

Thanks to Dr.-Ing. Torsten Finke (torsten.finke@igh-essen.com) for suggesting the case-insensitive checking for "mailto". This was added in version 2.3. 💖

Thanks to Beat Vontobel (b.vontobel@meteonews.ch) for the patch for the -location option. The patch (used by permission) was added in version 2.4. 🌸

Thanks to Ivo Ihrke (ivo.ihrke@inria.fr) for the patch for reading the calendar data if the input file is a dash. The patch (used by permission) was added in version 2.5. 🦋

Thanks to Matthias Gay (gay.matthias@gmail.com) for the UTC and timezone patches. These patches (used by permission) were added in version 2.6. 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Wayne Morrison, wayne@waynemorrison.com

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📜 LICENSE 📜

Copyright 2009-2018 Wayne Morrison

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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