tartdates(5)

📦 version 3.10, in debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🦋 NAME 🦋

okay so this is tartdates — the special-dates manual, section 5 of the LinuxTaRT docs, aka LinuxTaRT Special Dates. it's giving "birthday calendar but for your terminal" and honestly? obsessed. 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so bestie, LinuxTaRT reads a lil config file called specialdates that lets you (yes YOU) make a specific tagline pop up on certain special dates. iconic behavior, truly. 🎀

where does it live? the name and location get specified over in the LinuxTaRT config file ~/.tartrc — but like, usually it's just:

~/.tartdates

no cap, that's the default spot. 💅

✨ PARAMETERS ✨

every single line of the special date file is built like this, in order, no skips:

  • a day of the year written as a two digit month
  • a forward-slash (/)
  • a two digit date
  • a colon (:)
  • and then a line of text

so like:

mm/dd:tagline text
🚨 real talk: any line that does NOT follow this spec gets treated as a comment. that's the vibe check — it either matches or it's a comment, no in-between.

you can also make a comment on purpose by prefixing your text with a # symbol. and here's the slay part — using that method, you can place a comment behind a date line. 🫶

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

01/01:Happy New Year!!

this one will use "Happy New Year!!" as the tagline when the date is January 1st. new year new tagline, periodt. 🎉

12/25:Merry Christmas to all!

and this one displays "Merry Christmas to all!" as your tagline on Christmas day. main character holiday energy fr fr. 🎄

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • ~/.tartdates

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

okay that's the whole page, you ate that read 💅 Mark Veinot wrote this one, it's version 1.0.0, and it lives in the tartdates(5) corner of the LinuxTaRT Special Dates universe. go forth and schedule ur taglines bestie, mwah 💖✨🌸

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