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#!/bin/bash
# given month, day and weekday, get the most recent year that match itusage() {echo "$(basename $0) weekday month day"echo "(example: $(basename $0) wed aug 3 )"exit 1
}# check for arguments
if [ $# -ne 3 ]; thenusage
fi
weekday=$1
month=$2
day=$3# parse arguments, translate them to lowcase, truncate them to 3 chars
weekday=$(echo $weekday | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | cut -c1-3)
month=$(echo $month | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | cut -c1-3)# get the current date
eval $(date "+thismonth=%m; thisday=%d; thisyear=%Y")# get month number and weekday number
monthnum=$(echo $month | sed -e \'s/jan/1/;s/feb/2/;s/mar/3/;s/apr/4/;s/may/5/;s/jun/6/;s/jul/7/;s/aug/8/;s/sep/9/;s/oct/10/;s/nov/11/;s/dec/12/')
weekdaynum=$(echo $weekday | sed -e \'s/mon/1/;s/tue/2/;s/wed/3/;s/thu/4/;s/fri/5/;s/sat/6/;s/sun/7/;')
monthname=$(echo $month | sed -e \'s/10/oct/;s/11/nov/;s/12/dec/;s/1/jan/;s/2/feb/;s/3/mar/;s/4/apr/;s/5/may/;s/6/jun/;s/7/jul/;s/8/aug/;s/9/sep/')
# get the most recent year to start with
if [ $monthnum -gt $thismonth ]; thenmostrecent=$(($thisyear - 1))
elif [ $monthnum -eq $thismonth -a $day -gt $thisday ]; thenmostrecent=$(($thisyear - 1))
elsemostrecent=$thisyear
fiecho $monthname $day $mostrecent
# iterate over the years, looking for a match
weekdaynum_of_that_year=$(date -d "$monthname $day $mostrecent" +%u)
while [ $weekdaynum_of_that_year -ne $weekdaynum ]; domostrecent=$(($mostrecent-1))weekdaynum_of_that_year=$(date -d "$monthname $day $mostrecent" +%u)
done# output result
echo "Most recent year for weekday=$weekday, month=$month, day=$day is $mostrecent"

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(another way to implement it -- parse the output result of cal with sed, tr and cut)

#!/bin/bash
# given month, day and weekday, get the most recent year that match it
# set -x
usage() {echo "$(basename $0) weekday month day"echo "(example: $(basename $0) wed aug 3 )"exit 1
}# check for arguments
if [ $# -ne 3 ]; thenusage
fi
weekday=$1
month=$2
day=$3# parse arguments, translate them to lowcase, truncate them to 3 chars
weekday=$(echo $weekday | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | cut -c1-3)
month=$(echo $month | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | cut -c1-3)# get the current date
eval $(date "+thismonth=%m; thisday=%d; thisyear=%Y")# get month number and weekday number
monthnum=$(echo $month | sed -e \'s/jan/1/;s/feb/2/;s/mar/3/;s/apr/4/;s/may/5/;s/jun/6/;s/jul/7/;s/aug/8/;s/sep/9/;s/oct/10/;s/nov/11/;s/dec/12/')
weekdaynum=$(echo $weekday | sed -e \'s/mon/1/;s/tue/2/;s/wed/3/;s/thu/4/;s/fri/5/;s/sat/6/;s/sun/7/;')
monthname=$(echo $month | sed -e \'s/10/oct/;s/11/nov/;s/12/dec/;s/1/jan/;s/2/feb/;s/3/mar/;s/4/apr/;s/5/may/;s/6/jun/;s/7/jul/;s/8/aug/;s/9/sep/')
# get the most recent year to start with
if [ $monthnum -gt $thismonth ]; thenmostrecent=$(($thisyear - 1))
elif [ $monthnum -eq $thismonth -a $day -gt $thisday ]; thenmostrecent=$(($thisyear - 1))
elsemostrecent=$thisyear
fi# parse the output of cal and get the answer
while true; docmd="cal -h ${monthnum} ${mostrecent} | grep \"\b${day}\b\" | sed 's/[ ][ ][ ]\|[ ][ ]\|[ ]/|/g; s/^|//; s/|/\n/g' | cat -n | grep \"\b${day}\b$\" | tr -s [:space:] ' '| cut -d' ' -f2"weekdaynum_of_that_year=$(eval $cmd)weekdaynum_of_that_year=$(($weekdaynum_of_that_year - 1))[ $weekdaynum_of_that_year -eq 0 ] && weekdaynum_of_that_year=7if [ $weekdaynum_of_that_year -eq $weekdaynum ]; then break; filet mostrecent=$mostrecent-1# echo -n "Debug: press [enter] to continue ..."#  read ign
done# output result
echo "Most recent year for weekday=$weekday, month=$month, day=$day is $mostrecent"

-h option for cal is necessary for dealing with 'today' correctly

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