Jim , Anyone
I do not have GNU date
Besides I am particularly interested in how one can parse the return from the cal command. Say do - cal 11 2008 - and parse out a given date, say the 8th and return that the 8th was Saturday. ( diffrentiating between S for Saturday and Sunday , also in the case of T between Tuesday and Thursday ) . I am trying to use awk but getting stuck. Also can this be done using ARRAY