... provided that on most systems the last 3 bytes contain the last date of a month. What about this approach: cal | tail +3 | wc -c Many ways to do this... Many Thanks. Ned ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ari Moisio" <arimo@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:55 PM Subject: Re: how to get the last word from file > Hi! > > Quick & dirty:-) > echo $(cal) | tail -c 3 > > > -- > arimo > > 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
