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Old 05-12-2011
Need to capture all dates between start date and End date.
Hi All,

I enter Start date and end date as parameters. I need to capture dates between start date and end date. Please let me know if you have any idea the same.

Thanks in advance.
Nagaraja Akkivalli.
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Old 05-12-2011
Question Need more information
You need to provide more info:

Dates entered, including format -- yyyy/mm/dd, or?
Capture from what? Are you trying to read through a file?
Can only answer if we know the format of the file and can see a sample.
# 3  
Old 05-13-2011
Thanks for you response Joe.

I am entering dates in "dd/mm/yyyy" format. I will convert date into YYYYMMDD(20110301)format and append the same to filename(Mbr). Pass date appended file name(Mbr_20110301*) to ZIP files function to list all the files in the directory. Once files are listed, zip them.
I have a code to increment dates between "2 weeks ago" and "current date'(pasted below) but i want to do it between start date and end date. Note that, Start date and end date are my parameters.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
startdate=`/bin/date --date="2 weeks ago" +%Y%m%d`
currentdate=`/bin/date +%Y%m%d`
 
foldate="$startdate"
until [ "$foldate" == "$currentdate" ]
do
  foldate=`/bin/date --date="$foldate 1 day" +%Y%m%d`
echo "foldate $foldate"
done
exit 0

Last edited by Franklin52; 05-13-2011 at 04:33 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 4  
Old 05-13-2011
Code:
start_date="20110501"
end_date="20110401"
print=0

while [ 1 == 1  ];
do
    v_date=`eval date +"%Y%m%d" --date=\"$i day ago\"`;
    i=`expr $i + 1`;

    if [ $start_date == $v_date ]
    then
        print=1
    fi
    
    if [ $print == 1 ]
    then
        echo $v_date; 

    fi
    
    if [ $v_date == $end_date ]
    then
        break
    fi

done

This has worked for me
# 5  
Old 05-14-2011
Thanks for your response, Kumaran. Will check this out.
# 6  
Old 05-16-2011
Java
Thanks much for your help, Kumaran,

I checked this code. This code is very similar to my code which I pasted above(i days ago/n weeks ago). However, I am able to connect to database and retrive all dates between start date and end date(wrote PL/SQL and checked it). I am unble to output all these dates into file since query was returning multiple values. How to output all dates into file?

How to read one date at a time from file? please help me.

Thanks and Regards
Nagaraja Akkivalli.
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