08-11-2014
Extract from cal
I was trying to get 1st Sunday in a month. I tried using cal [month] [year] followed by awk NF=1 apparently it would give entire 1st field in that month.
Any suggestions
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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