[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

[Dash McElroy]

One more:

echo `cal|tail -r`|colrm 3

Check the tail -r output!

-Dash


On Nov 18, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Dash McElroy 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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