[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

Dash McElroy dmcelroy at bayfed.com
Fri Nov 18 10:55:20 PST 2005


I matched it:

LASTSUNDAY=`cal|tail -2|head -c2`

v.s.

LASTSUNDAY=`cal|rev`|rev|cut -b-2

-Dash


On Nov 18, 2005, at 9:03 AM, Rick Moen wrote:

> Quoting Anthony Ettinger (apwebdesign at yahoo.com):
>
>> echo `cal|rev`|rev|cut -b-2
>
> Elegant!  I suspect that's going to be difficult to beat.
>
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