[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

[Peter Belew]

Wow!

On 11/18/05, Anthony Ettinger <apwebdesign at yahoo.com> wrote:
> echo `cal|rev`|rev|cut -b-2

  That's really clever!

  - Peter
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> --- cerise at armory.com wrote:
>
> > I can top that!  This is 59 chars.
> >
> > LASTSUNDAY=`cal | grep [0-9] | sed s/[ ].*//g | tail
> > -n 1`
> >
> > -Phil/CERisE
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:13:01PM -0800, Jay
> > Campbell wrote:
> > >
> > > You'd have to escape the backticks to use this
> > inside the
> > > LASTSUNDAY example backticks, and on re-parsing
> > the question
> > > it asked for the date, not just day-of-month, so
> > you'd have
> > > to tack more characters into the second `date`s
> > format string.
> > >
> > > So I'm over 80 characters anyway. The practice of
> > shaving bytes
> > > off code like this is called 'golfing' in some
> > circles (i.e. perl)
> > >
> > > j
> >
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