If you have ksh93 version h (released 1999) or later you can use the amazingly useful, but very poorly documented, %T operator to find specific dates easily
To print the date for the last day of last month do
The %T format can also be invoked as %(subformat)T where subformat is any format that can be handled by the date(1) command.
I am running AIX 5.3 with the default shell as ksh.
I would like to know how to run a cron job on this system the last calendar day of the month. I found an example, but, I'm not sure if it will work with AIX and ksh...
02 16 * * * && /home/user/job-eom.kshI also need to be able to run a... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to run a job every month at the beginning of the month which is scheduled through autosys, lets say on 03/01/2010. I need to pass the last month's i.e February's first_date = 02/01/2010 and last_date = 02/28/2010 as variables to a stored procedure. Can somebody please pass... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I'm on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE shell and I was trying the following cron entry for end of month:
59 23 * * * && /home/user/eomt.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
I get the following error
Subject: Cron <user@shell>
eomt.sh contains the following codes
#!/bin/sh
rm /home/user/tst/logs/* &&... (9 Replies)
I have requirment to get last date of previous month and the first date of previous 4th month:
Example:
Current date: 20130320 (yyyymmdd)
Last date of previous month: 20130228 (yyyymmdd)
First date of previous 4th month: 20121101 (yyyymmdd)
In my shell --date, -d, -v switches are not... (3 Replies)
I am not able to fetch first date and last date previous month
date -d -1month +%Y-%m-%d
date -d -1month +%Y-%m-%d
I need two format dd-mm-yyy
previous month 01-03-2016
previous month 31-03-2016
and also only date 1 to 31
Aprriciate your replay (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to add few (say 3 days) to sysdate using -
date -d '+ 3 days' +%y%m%d
and it works as expected.
But how to add few (say 3 days) to a literal date value and how bash treats a literal value as a date. Can we say just like in ORACLE TO_DATE that my given literal date value... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
calendar
calendar(1) General Commands Manual calendar(1)Name
calendar - calendar reminder service
Syntax
calendar [-]
Description
The command consults the file `calendar' in the current directory and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date. The com-
mand recognizes most month-day dates, such as Dec. 7, december 7, 12/7, but it does not recognize dates formatted in the following ways: 7
December or 7/12. If you give the month as * with a date, such as, * 1, that day in any month will do. On weekends, specifying tomorrow
extends through Monday.
When an argument is present, the command searches through a user's calendar file in his login directory and sends him any positive results
by Normally this is done daily under control of
The calendar file is first run through the C preprocessor, to include any other calendar files specified with the #include syntax.
Included calendars are shared by all users, and are maintained and documented by the local administration.
Options
- Functions for every user who has a calendar file in his login directory.
Restrictions
The extended idea of tomorrow does not account for holidays.
Files
calendar
/usr/lib/calendar to figure out today's and tomorrow's dates
/etc/passwd
/tmp/cal*
/lib/cpp, egrep, sed, mail as subprocesses
See Alsoat(1), cron(8), mail(1)calendar(1)