[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

Anthony Ettinger apwebdesign at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 18 14:07:45 PST 2005


nice. i didn't think about character cutting with head
or tail.


--- Dash McElroy <dmcelroy at bayfed.com> 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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