[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

[Jay Campbell]

It took all 80.

(for x in 1 2 3 4 5;do date -d"$x sun";done)|grep `date +%b`|tail -1|cut -c9-10

This assumes a non-ancient version of `date` that understands 
'1 sunday', '2 sunday' to mean the next two sundays.

j

> For amusement, create a 1-line sh or bash command which will set
> a shell variable $LASTSUNDAY to the date (2-digit day) of the last
> Sunday in the current month.
> 
> Like
> 
>    LASTSUNDAY=`some_shell_stuff`
> 
> Use only standard Unix utilities such as 'cat' or 'head' or 'date'.
> 
> The command shouldn't take longer than an 80-character line.
> 
> (I did this myself for creating a cron job which sends out email
> announcing a meeting on the last sunday of a month).
> 
> :)
> 
>  Peter
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Jay Campbell