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Old 01-11-2007
Formating cal output

Hi Gurus,

In my Cal output i want to cut the date of 2nd saturday how tyo achive this.

for eg in the below output i need that second saturday 13 to be cut.
crypto $ cal
January 2007
S M Tu W Th F S
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

my output should be

13

Thanks
# 2  
Old 01-11-2007
You can do something like that :
Code:
cal | awk 'NR==4 {print $7 }'


Jean-Pierre.
# 3  
Old 01-11-2007
Perfect ! thanks.
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