Sure it works-- but looks like Chinese to me... "`... 1 day ago... I'll study it. Many thanks By the way, anybody knows of a remote system where I can check the teraterm pro? Those at school wouldn't let me get connected with anything other than the putty because of the security reasons; I need to ask them for a special permition to use this client, but I want to know how much better is it than the putty. Is it only telnet? Thanks a lot! Ned ----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor Astrope" <astrope@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:35 PM Subject: Re: how to get the last word from file > Try something like this: > > date +"%d" --date="`date +\"%b 1 1 month\"` 1 day ago" > > > There's probably a simpler way using the date command, but that should > work. > > > Hth, > > Trevor > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
