1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I want a sample Date validation script using if loops. The script should first compare "year".If the year is lesser than the current year,It should go for "month" checking. I have the script that splits the date into year,month and date.I want only the checking part. My if loop checking is not... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi I have below file with 3 rd column as date ....i want to make 3 column to mm/dd/yyyy . in the below file 2 row date is like 1/23/1994 so i want to append '0' to month i,e. 01/23/1994 and in the 3 row date is like 6/4/1994 ---so i want this to 06/04/1994 Source:... (1 Reply)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

the user have to input the date format in mmddmmhhyyyy (month,date,minutes,hour,year) i want a shell script to check whether the user has properly input in the above said manner. kindly advice (2 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script which is take date as parameter sh abc.sh <2010-02-01> #!/sh/bin my_date=$1 #Here i want to two diffrent dates ## 3 Days before ##date14query=$mydate - 4 (it will be 2010-01-28) ##date24query=$mydate +4 (it will be 2010-01-05) #Please Help (3 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a script which runs on specific sunday. If that script runs on the sunday i want to execute another script on following wednesday. I have a log for that server. My wednesday scripts needs to check the sunday run log timestamp and if it matches it should run. Please help. Thanks,... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

File contains below data,how to validate the date using awk command or any command. date formate is fixed as "YYYYMMDD" test1|20120405 test2|20121405 output should be: test1|20120405 Thanks (2 Replies)

7. Programming

Hi All, We need to create the custom function to pass the parameter is date.if it is valid return 1 else 0 return should be 1 select is_date('2012-09-17'); return should be 0 select is_date('2012-79-17'); Thanks (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm writing a shell script for cleanup of older files from various sub-directories inside a main directory The structure of directories is as below: Logs daily online archive weekly online archive... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Experts, I have a date validation script in that i will validate the date for a given format and search in the logs for that date. The script logic is very simple like below. Validate_Date() { is_valid=1 while do date_format=$(date "+$1") echo -e "Please enter the $2 date like... (6 Replies)

10. What is on Your Mind?

Hi folks, I new to shell script . I want to know how to validate a String as valid date example: 20150712 ---> valid date 20160524-->valid 201605T12-->invalid date 12341234--->invalid date we need to valid string( yyyymmdd) to date in SunOS 5.10 please give some idea to validate... (9 Replies)