Question: how to print calcurse interface without entering TUI?

[GrahamBenHarper]

I'd like to print the calcurse layout almost exactly as it appears when I run the calcurse command; however, I'd like it to print this via my .bashrc. For example, when I open my terminal, I'd like to see something that looks like this above my shell prompt:

I tried calcurse -d 1, but I don't see the calendar with today's date highlighted or my todo list. I would like to be able to see everything from the terminal just like when I'm in the TUI, but I would like to avoid entering the TUI if possible. Any help is appreciated!

[nimaaskarian]

this is possible, but because of the escape sequences used in (n)curses, the terminal would be unusable kinda, as you had no cursor.

however, heres the code

calcurse &> somefile &
cat somefile

I hope that you have had some better and less hacky way to do what you wanted to