[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

[cerise@armory.com]

More than matched, actually.  Anthony's needs the echo.

Although, technically, it's cheating slightly to use -2 instead of -n 2 since
the maintainers of GNU coreutils have been trying to push -2 into obsolescence 
for some unknown reason.

Even with that mod, you still win.

-Phil/CERisE

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:55:20AM -0800, Dash McElroy wrote:
> 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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