conky calendar

[Roland Smith]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 05:01:34AM -0400, PJ wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a time with the calendar.sh script I found on the
> Net; it doesn't display quite correctly.
> It should have brackets around the current date, but I can't figure out
> what is not functioning correctly:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cal | awk 'NR>2' | sed -e 's/   /    /g' -e 's/[^ ] /& /g' -e 's/..*/  &
> /' -e 's/ \('`date | awk '{print $2}'`'\) /\['`date | awk '{print $2}'`'\]/'

Look at the output of the date command:
Sat Oct 10 15:12:39 CEST 2009

Change 'print $2' to 'print $3' to get the numercal date.
Or even simpler: use "date +%d" instead of "date | awk '{print $3}'".

Roland
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