[Bug 1697448] [NEW] calendar: how to manage multiple calendar files?

[G.M.]

Public bug reported:

Hi,

I'm using BSD's "calendar" to print dates of interest at each opening of
a terminal (in fact, of a shell...).

As you can guess, I need the number of entries to be as low as possible
in order not to pollute my screen.

For the moment, I use "calendar.french", but there are too many entries
there. I'd like to use only the files
"/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.fetes and
"/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.jferies".

I've tried with multiple "-f" options, but then "calendar" defaults to
its basic behaviour: using "calendar.all".

My first remark is the following: I think there's a bug here since it
does not warn the user that there is an error in parsing the command
line.

My second remark is : does anyone knows an option/trick I could use to open multiple calendar files? I've tried the following, but it does not work:
calendar -A 3 -B 3 <(cat /usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.{fetes,jferies})

Thanks

** Affects: bsdmainutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  calendar: how to manage multiple calendar files?

Status in bsdmainutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  I'm using BSD's "calendar" to print dates of interest at each opening
  of a terminal (in fact, of a shell...).

  As you can guess, I need the number of entries to be as low as
  possible in order not to pollute my screen.

  For the moment, I use "calendar.french", but there are too many
  entries there. I'd like to use only the files
  "/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.fetes and
  "/usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.jferies".

  I've tried with multiple "-f" options, but then "calendar" defaults to
  its basic behaviour: using "calendar.all".

  My first remark is the following: I think there's a bug here since it
  does not warn the user that there is an error in parsing the command
  line.

  My second remark is : does anyone knows an option/trick I could use to open multiple calendar files? I've tried the following, but it does not work:
  calendar -A 3 -B 3 <(cat /usr/share/calendar/fr_FR/calendar.{fetes,jferies})

  Thanks

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