Displaying the nearest holiday in Perl/Bash

Question

Perl

Hello $username.

Can you please tell me how to display the nearest holiday using Perl and/or Bash? I am new to these languages, so I have no idea.

Thanks a

lot PS OC - Ubuntu

Answer 1

man calendar?

Answer 2

wget -qO - http://www.calend.ru/img/export/today-holidays.rss | iconv -f cp1251 -t utf8 | awk '{ if ( match($0, /<title[^>]*>([^<]+)/, tmp) ) print tmp[1]; }' | head -3 | tail -1