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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a homework assignment:
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"Display" the number of days in the current month. For example:
September 1996 has 30 days
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I am trying to just display the head of cal to start the sentence.
eg. cal | head
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Discussion started by: eaafuddy
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
#!/bin/ksh
day=1
month=1
year=2012
if then
then
prevmonth=31
elif
then
prevmonth=30
elif
then
then prevmonth=29
elif
then prevmonth=29
else
prevmonth=28
fi (4 Replies)
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all
searched google and here, cant find and am begining to suspect there is no options for this.
shell = born
with either the date or cal command I need to display the number of days in current month. can anyone point me in the right direction? (10 Replies)
Discussion started by: rontopia
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have an issue in date processing, the issue is I have a month as an int ( 1 - 12 ), the weekday as int ( 0 - 6 , 0 = Sunday), and the week day in month as int ( 0 - 5, 5 = last ex: first sunday, last monday, third tuesday ... ), now from those three parameters is there a possible way to... (5 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all. I am scripting in a POSIX shell on HPUX.
I am running a script that needs to determine the number of days in a month.
I found this on the forum and it works great:
X=`cal $(date +%m) $(date +%Y) | grep -v '' | wc -w`
The issue is that I am running the script on the 7th day of... (11 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
im trying to do this inside a bash script;
for ((a=$COLUMNS;a>0;a--))
do
printf "="
done
printf "\n"
With it i want to display an "equals" line as long as de curent shell window.
but i can't get the $COLUMNS variable from the set enviroment.
Some help please. (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Tártaro
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
does any one have any ideas how i would go about calculating the number of days left in the month from a bash script ?. I want to do some operations on a csv file according to the result (8 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I'm a newbie to unix and i'm loving every bit of it.
I need assistance in setting my date function in my script to "new month".
What I want to do is define the "newmonth" as the 1st of every month so my script can run by this time evry month through the year.
Can someone assist.
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Discussion started by: Agent704
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Looking for some help on capturing the number of days in a month to set as a loop counter. Any ideas, please let me know. (3 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
Please can someone help me in getitng last 7 days from the current date?
for eg:
input /default : today (10/18/2004)
required output:
10/17/2004
10/16/2004
10/15/2004
10/14/2004
10/13/2004
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Discussion started by: Anamika
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