Cal no longer prints month of a given year

[Martin Owens]

Binary package hint: bsdmainutils

The command:

cal -m feb 2022

Used to print just the month feb in 2022, now it prints the entire 2022 year calendar.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Confirmed in 8.017 on Natty, does the correct (i.e. matches man page and expectation) behavior on a debian box with 6.1.10 ; not tried anything in between to see where it went.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

OK, this looks like an old bug.
It seems to stem from a change to the way the option parsing was done, it used to be that getopt didn't know that -m took a parameter and it was fixed up later, leaving the argc to be 2 (in the same way as if you hadn't said -m at all and specified a month + year).

This fix seems to do it, and I've tried a bunch of options. Note I also looked at the upstream FreeBSD code and that's changed a lot more and probably doesn't still have this problem.

Dave

[Martin Owens (doctormo)]

Thanks Dave, I can confirm your workaround too of using it without the -m flag.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Seems to work in Oneiric (bsdmainutils 8.2.3)