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From: "Ned" <ngranic@cox.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: how to get the last word from file
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:57:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000c01c534bb$1e15a1b0$4e31e444@nedelko83f1172> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503292252450.32030@nkl.local>

... provided that on most systems the last 3 bytes contain the last date of 
a month.
What about this approach:
cal | tail +3 | wc -c
Many ways to do this...

Many Thanks.
Ned
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ari Moisio" <arimo@netsonic.fi>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: how to get the last word from file


> Hi!
>
>   Quick & dirty:-)
> echo $(cal) | tail -c 3
>
>
> -- 
> arimo
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Ned wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>> I am using the cal command to get current month. What I need for my shell 
>> script is how many days are there in the current month, that is, the last 
>> listed date for that month is that very number.
>> How can I get that number?
>> cal | tail -1
>> and then what?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>> Ned
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Ned
 ` Trevor Astrope
   ` Ned
     ` Gregory Nowak
 ` David Bruzos
 ` Ari Moisio
   ` Ned [this message]
 ` Ralph W. Reid
   ` Chuck Hallenbeck
   ` Ned
     ` Ralph W. Reid

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