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Commands tagged cal

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cal 04 2012 | awk '{ $7 && X=$7 } END { print X }'
2012-05-06 23:43:21
User: flatcap
Functions: awk cal
Tags: Date manipulation awk date cal
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Get the date for the last Saturday of a given month

If your locale has Monday as the first day of the week, like mine in the UK, change the two $7 into $6

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cal 04 2012 | awk 'NF <= 7 { print $7 }' | grep -v "^$" | tail -1
2012-05-03 16:57:45
User: javidjamae
Functions: awk cal grep tail
Tags: Date manipulation awk tail grep date dates cal
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Get the date for the last Saturday of a given month

This is a little trickier than finding the last Sunday, because you know the last Sunday is in the first position of the last line. The trick is to use the NF less than or equal to 7 so it picks up all the lines then grep out any empty lines.

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for y in $(seq 2009 2011); do cal $y; done
2009-07-10 10:07:46
User: JesusSuperstar
Functions: cal seq
Tags: bash seq cal
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Printing multiple years with Unix cal command

print multiple increasing years using cal - calendar -. You can also try

seq Start Increment End
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