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Old 03-17-2005
Write a shell script to find whether the first day of the month is a working day
Hi ,
I am relatively new to unix...
Can u pls help me out to find out if the first day of the month is a working day ie from (Monday to Friday)...using Date and If clause in Korn shell..

This is very urgent.
Thanks for ur help...
# 2  
Old 03-17-2005
Hello,

Do you want to get the output of the current month or any month that you give..
Please make the needed thing clear..

Thanks
esham
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Old 03-17-2005
'Write a shell script to find whether the first day of the month is a working day'
Hi Esham,
The script runs every day.....
So it should be for any month.....

Thanks ...
# 4  
Old 03-17-2005
Look at "Yesterdays Date/Date Arithmetic" in our FAQ section.
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Old 03-17-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by phani
Hi ,
I am relatively new to unix...
Can u pls help me out to find out if the first day of the month is a working day ie from (Monday to Friday)...using Date and If clause in Korn shell..

This is very urgent.
Thanks for ur help...
man cal
or
man date
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Old 03-17-2005
Using case...
Code:
case $(date "+%a%d") in
    Mon01|Tue01|Wed01|Thu01|Fri01) echo true ;;
    *) echo false ;;
esac

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Old 03-18-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ygor
Using case...
Code:
case $(date "+%a%d") in
    Mon01|Tue01|Wed01|Thu01|Fri01) echo true ;;
    *) echo false ;;
esac

thats a good solution...

and its simple also...

esham SmilieSmilie
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