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Thanks for the list, there are many useful examples. Another way to get the last date in current month (== the number of days in a month) is: : $(cal); ec

• lloeki 8y ago
  For the curious, `:` is the noop builtin in bash. I use it mostly as I would use `pass` in python, since empty conditionals or functions are a parse error. if whatevs; then : fi
  • kseistrup 8y ago
    And to elaborate even more: ‘:’ is the command, and ‘$(cal)’ – which equals the unquoted output from running the ‘cal’ command – are the arguments. The last day of the month is thus the last argument of ‘:’ and can be referenced with the ‘$_’ variable.