[Smaug] A quick scripting puzzle

[Anthony Ettinger]

ettinger at spring ~ $ echo `cal|tail -r`|colrm 3
tail: invalid option -- r
Try `tail --help' for more information.


Are these not pasting for me correctly? I've gotten a
few non-working commands from this discussion.

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

> 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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