geektool calendar - 2 digit date

[defy69]

i was wondering if anyone knew how to modify geektool scripts to displaying a calendar to show the first 9 days as double digits (with a zero added). right now im using the simple version:

cal | sed -n '2,8p'

the font im using (dymofontinverse) is a fixed-width for all the letters and numbers, but the spaces are just blanks instead of a matching fill.




is it easy enough to change the geektool command, or should i try to modify the font file?




thanks

 

[angelwatt]

Could you explain what you're wanting a little more? This part, "the first 9 days a double digits" was especially confusing. Maybe some examples would help.

 

[defy69]

***the first 9 days as double digits

sorry about that, im terrible at catching my own mistakes

 

[angelwatt]

This seems to work:

cal | sed -n '2,8p' | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/ \([0-9]\)\([ \n]\)/0\1\2/g'

which currently gives:

Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
         01 02 03 04
05 06 07 08 09 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31

This page has some discussion on the weird part at the beginning of the sed command.

 

[defy69]

didnt work for me, in geektool and in terminal

 

[angelwatt]

I was using Ubuntu so that might have made a difference. Try this one.

[s]cal | sed -n '2,8p' | sed 's/ \([0-9]\)\( \|$\)/0\1\2/g'[/s]

Edit: OK, apparently there are some Unix/Linux differences with the regex stuff. Back at my Mac so can actually test. Here's something that works from Mac 10.6.

cal | sed -n '2,8p' | sed -e 's/ \([0-9] \)/0\1/g' -e 's/ \([0-9]$\)/0\1/g'

and another alternative that's a little shorter,

cal | sed -n '2,8p' | sed -E 's/ ([0-9])( |$)/0\1\2/g'

 

[defy69]

thanks a lot

if doesn't fix my problem entirely. im glad to see there is a way to get all the dates to show up as double digits. But the font im using is really causing the alignment problems