This is yet to be seen! Wow, what a syntax. semicolon at the end of if, elif, then, and the most apealing is that fi at the end. Thanks a lot! It's a totally new stuff to me. Is there a case structure in bash? That would fit here just perfectly. Many thanks! Ned ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph W. Reid" <rreid@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:16 PM Subject: Re: how to get the last word from file > 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 > > The above command line will produce a blank line because the last line > produced by `cal` is a blank line. If you are looking specifically > for days in the current month (as opposed to a more general > last-word-in file search), the following is one of several ways to > produce it: > > if [ `cal | grep -c 31` == 1 ]; > then > echo 31 > elif [ `cal | grep -c 30` == 1 ]; > then > echo 30 > elif [ `cal | grep -c 29` == 1 ]; > then > echo 29 > elif [ `cal | grep -c 28` == 1 ]; > then > echo 28 > else > echo Cal did not produce a calendar. > fi > > HTH, and have a _great_ day! > > -- > Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. > rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid > ...passing through The City of Internet at the speed of light! > _PI = 4 * ARCTAN (1) > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
