[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

[Anthony Ettinger]

you need to chomp that newline on this example.

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

> 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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