[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

[Dash McElroy]

LASTSUNDAY=`cal|colrm 3|tail -c4`

-Dash


On Nov 18, 2005, at 11:29 AM, cerise at armory.com wrote:

> 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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