ordinal

Ordinal is a command-line utility to convert cardinal numbers into ordinal ones. It’s functionality can be summed up nicely in the two following examples:

$ seq 20 | ordinal
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
10th
11th
12th
13th
14th
15th
16th
17th
18th
19th
20th

$ date +'%-d of %B, %Y' | ordinal -p1
4th of October, 2023

For more details, read the ordinal(1) manual page.

Installation

Installation is very simple:

$ make
$ sudo make install

If you do not have flex installed, you probably have lex instead so you can try the following:

$ make LEX=lex LFLAGS= LDLIBS=-ll

If the above doesn’t work, send an email over to ~mango/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht describing your problem.