Hi kre,
> D=$(date +%d)
> case "$D" in
> [023]1) ORD=st;;
> [02]2) ORD=nd;;
> [02]3) ORD=rd;;
> *) ORD=th;;
> esac
> case "$D" in
> 0*) SP=;;
> *) SP=' ';;
> esac
I ended up with
$ cat ~/bin/ordsuff
#! /bin/sed -rf
# Append an ordinal indicator to the number on each line.
s/1$/&st/
s/2$/&nd/
s/3$/&rd/
s/[4-9]$/&th/
s/.0$/&th/
/1(1st|2nd|3rd)$/s/..$/th/
$
> ps: this is not really an nmh-workers issue!
This is true. To correct that, I note mh-format(5) too has no function
to produce the ordinal suffix. :-)
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Cheers, Ralph.
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