icalBuddy is a command-line utility that can be used to get lists of events and tasks/to-do’s from the OS X calendar database (the same one iCal uses).
Installation
brew install ical-buddy
Usage
USAGE: icalBuddy [options] <command>
<command> specifies the general action icalBuddy should take:
'eventsToday' Print events occurring today
'eventsToday+NUM' Print events occurring between today and NUM days into
the future
'eventsNow' Print events occurring at present time
'eventsFrom:START to:END'
Print events occurring between the two specified dates
'uncompletedTasks' Print uncompleted tasks
'undatedUncompletedTasks'
Print uncompleted tasks that have no due date
'tasksDueBefore:DATE'
Print uncompleted tasks that are due before the given
date, which can be 'today+NUM' or any regular date
'calendars' Print all calendars
'strEncodings' Print all the possible string encodings
'editConfig' Open the configuration file for editing in a GUI editor
'editConfigCLI' Open the configuration file for editing in a CLI editor
Some of the [options] you can use are:
-V Print version number (no <command> needed)
-u Check for updates to self online (no <command> needed)
-sc,-sd,-sp Separate by calendar, date or priority
-f Format output
-nc No calendar names
-nrd No relative dates
-npn No property names
-n Include only events from now on
-sed Show empty dates
-uid Show event/task UIDs
-eed Exclude end datetimes
-ea Exclude all-day events
-li Limit items (value required)
-std,-stda Sort tasks by due date (stda = ascending)
-tf,-df Set time or date format (value required)
-po Set property order (value required)
-ps Set property separators (value required)
-b Set bullet point (value required)
-ab Set alert bullet point (value required)
-ss Set section separator (value required)
-ic,-ec Include or exclude calendars (value required)
-iep,-eep Include or exclude event properties (value required)
-itp,-etp Include or exclude task properties (value required)
-cf,-lf Set config or localization file path (value required)
-nnr Set replacement for newlines within notes (value required)
See the icalBuddy man page for more info.
Version 1.8.8
Copyright 2008-2012 Ali Rantakari, http://hasseg.org/icalBuddy