1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi there I am using the following command to get today's date: Date=`date '+%Y%m%d'` This has the format 20040409 What I want is today's date -1 i.e. get yesterdays date. What is the command for this? Thanks :) (1 Reply)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello...I have have the value of date command stored in a particular format in a variable...Is there any way by which I can increment the value of the date using unix only?Until now i was calling an sql query to increment the date.. Thanks (6 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a problem... it's possible execute a command DATE with the sintax of LINUX system ??? Example: in Linux i can execute the command line : date -- set "10 minutes" and i have a output the date with the actual date - 10 min. It's possible have the same rusult in the Unix system ????? ... (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am currently running the following Korn shell script which works fine: #!/usr/bin/ksh count=`db2 -x "select count(*) from schema.tablename"` echo "count" I would like to add a "where" clause to the 2nd line that would allow me to get a record count of all the records from schema.tablename... (9 Replies)

5. Programming

hello please I need code command date in c I have a projet in my unv I am waiting your enswer:b::b: sorry on my english (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm on hp-unix. I would like a variable to hold the last change date of a file. I looked at the man pages for stat, but I don't see any examples and can't get the syntax right. Can anyone help me? Thank you. (2 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

I need to use a shell script, using sed command how to replace date variable value in following format. 04/18/2012 11:38:55 Because the sed is treating the '/' as a parameter instead of the value of a variable, and hence there is the message as sed: command garbled: s/insert/04/18/2012... (9 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, Need an urgent help on the below scenario. script: awk -F"," 'BEGIN { #some variable assignment} { #some calculation and put values in array} END { year=#getting it from array and assume this will be 2014 month=#getting it from array and this will be 05 date=#... (7 Replies)

9. HP-UX

current date command runs well awk -v t="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat subtract 30 days fails awk -v t="$(date --date="-30days" +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat awk command in hp unix subtract 30 days automatically from current date without date illegal option error... (20 Replies)

10. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

I am trying to work on a script where it is a *(star) delimited file has a multiple lines starts with RTG and 3rd column=TD8 I want to substring the date part and I want to replace with currentdate minus 15 days. Here is an example. iam using AIX server $ cat temp.txt RTG*888*TD8*20180201~... (1 Reply)