This command will do it on my system: cal | tr ' ' '\n' | tail -n 2 I have to put 2 as arg for tail, because my cal command prints a blank line at the end... DB On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:17:43PM -0700, Ned wrote: > Hi list, > I am using the cal command to get current month. What I need for my shell script is how many days are there in the current month, that is, the last listed date for that month is that very number. > How can I get that number? > cal | tail -1 > and then what? > > Many thanks! > Ned > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
