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05-29-2007

aigles

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If you can't modify the format of the date in DATESTAMP, create another variable with the right format :

Code:

DATESTAMP2=`date +"%m/%d/%Y"` # Sol 1
DATESTAMP2=$(echo $DATESTAMP | sed 's_^\(..\)\(..\)_\1/\2/_') # Sol 2

if grep -q $DATESTAMP2 HOLIDAYFILE
then
   echo "Holiday !!!"
fi

Jean-Pierre.