09-27-2002
The sort command can handle up to nine fields so you should have no preoblem. If you ever need more than nine you can often disign the record to sorted to have sort keys next to one another and then treat them as a single combined field.
No expr cannot handle floating point. But bc can handle fixed point and this can be used to do non-integer arithmetic:
A=1.2
B=.5
C=`echo $A + $B | bc`
echo $C
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holidays
holidays(4) File Formats holidays(4)
NAME
holidays - prime/nonprime table for the accounting system
SYNOPSIS
/etc/acct/holidays
DESCRIPTION
The /etc/acct/holidays file specifies prime time hours and holidays. Holidays and weekends are considered non-prime time hours.
/etc/acct/holidays is used by the accounting system.
All lines beginning with an * are comments.
The /etc/acct/holidays file consists of two sections. The first non-comment line defines the current year and the start time of prime and
non-prime time hours, in the form of:
current_year prime_start non_prime_start
Specify prime_start and non_prime_start times in the range of 0000 to 2400.
The remaining non-comment lines define the holidays in the form of:
month/day company_holiday
Of these two fields, only the month/day is actually used by the accounting system programs.
The /etc/acct/holidays file must be updated every year.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 An Example of the /etc/acct/holidays File
The following is an example of the /etc/acct/holidays file:
* Prime/Nonprime Table for the accounting system
*
* Curr Prime Non-Prime
* Year Start Start
*
1991 0830 1800
*
* only the first column (month/day) is significant.
*
* month/day Company Holiday
*
1/1 New Years Day
5/30 Memorial Day
7/4 Indep. Day
9/5 Labor Day
11/24 Thanksgiving Day
11/25 day after Thanksgiving
12/25 Christmas
12/26 day after Christmas
SEE ALSO
acct(1M)
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