[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

[Anthony Ettinger]

yeah. gcal i don't have. I have gnome installed, but i
suspcect gcal is a seperate pkg.

--- Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think cal is standard, though; no one has
> complained about it
> not being there.
> 
>  - Peter
> 
> On 11/19/05, Anthony Ettinger
> <apwebdesign at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > gcal isn't standard
> >
> > --- Thomas Leavitt <thomas at thomasleavitt.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 08:43 -0800,
> > > smaug-request at lists.svlug.org wrote:
> > > > Message: 2
> > > > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:26:33 -0800
> > > > From: Peter Belew <peterbe at sonic.net>
> > > > Subject: [Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle
> > > > To: SMAUG Users <smaug at lists.svlug.org>
> > > > Message-ID: <20051118042633.GA6844 at sonic.net>
> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > > >
> > > > For amusement, create a 1-line sh or bash
> command
> > > which will set
> > > > a shell variable $LASTSUNDAY to the date
> (2-digit
> > > day) of the last
> > > > Sunday in the current month.
> > > >
> > > > Like
> > > >
> > > >    LASTSUNDAY=`some_shell_stuff`
> > > >
> > > > Use only standard Unix utilities such as 'cat'
> or
> > > 'head' or 'date'.
> > > >
> > > > The command shouldn't take longer than an
> > > 80-character line.
> > > >
> > > > (I did this myself for creating a cron job
> which
> > > sends out email
> > > > announcing a meeting on the last sunday of a
> > > month).
> > > >
> > > > :)
> > > >
> > > >  Peter
> > > >
> > >
> > > Here's my entry... I'm pretty sure, somewhere
> within
> > > the byzantine array
> > > of options available in gcal, there's a way to
> > > directly produce this...
> > > but I couldn't find it. However, this works, no
> > > matter whether there are
> > > four or five Sundays in a month.
> > >
> > > LASTSUNDAY=`gcal -i -s1|tail -n1|sed "s/[
> > > ]*$//"|rev|cut -b-2|rev`
> > >
> > > I'm not sure how this works, but you could
> probably
> > > cheat more, by
> > > feeding gcal instructions to use some of these
> > > commands from a file...
> > >
> > > and of course, I'm cheating, by using gcal, but
> hey.
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Anthony Ettinger
ph: (408) 656-2473
web: http://www.apwebdesign.com