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From: Trevor Astrope <astrope@tabbweb.com>
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Subject: Re: how to get the last word from file
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Try something like this:

date +"%d" --date="`date +\"%b 1 1 month\"` 1 day ago"


There's probably a simpler way using the date command, but that should 
work.


Hth,

Trevor

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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