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Bash function to see if the day ends in "y"

Terminal - Bash function to see if the day ends in "y"
function ends_in_y() { if [ `date +%A | sed -e 's/\(^.*\)\(.$\)/\2/'` == "y" ]; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi }
2010-04-06 20:14:34
User: allrightname
Functions: echo sed
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Bash function to see if the day ends in "y"

For those days when you need to know if something is happening because the day ends in "y".

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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
date +%A | cut -c $(( $(date +%A | wc -c) - 1 ))
2010-04-07 00:23:15
User: DaveQB
Functions: cut date wc
Tags: bash echo cut date wc
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Bash function to see what the day ends in

A command to find out what the day ends in. Can be edited slightly to find out what "any" output ends in.

NB: I haven't tested with weird and wonderful output.

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function ends_in_y() { case $(date +%A) in *y ) true ;; * ) false ;; esac } ; ends_in_y && echo ok
2010-04-06 22:18:52
User: unixmonkey9199
Functions: date echo false true
Tags: bash sed echo date function
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Bash function to see if the day ends in

The shell has perfectly adequate pattern matching for simple expressions.

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Know a better way?

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What others think

Silly as it is, there are shorter ways to get there.

You don't need the "-e", or the first () in sed.

sed 's/^.*\(.$\)/\1/'

But I prefer grep:

function ends_in_y() { date +%A | grep -qv "y$"; echo $?; }
Comment by flatcap 162 weeks and 5 days ago
true
Comment by penpen 162 weeks and 5 days ago

And now for the ultimate solution:

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Comment by penpen 162 weeks and 5 days ago

for future reference, if you're grabbing some regular expression out of a line of text and discarding the rest (in this case, ".$") grep -o works wonders

Comment by camocrazed 148 weeks and 5 days ago

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