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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Calender Unix programming date issues Post 302191262 by dannyd_y on Friday 2nd of May 2008 04:38:47 AM
Old 05-02-2008
Calender Unix programming date issues

Hi, i;m beginner of Unix, i trying to use crontab to zip my log file automatically, below is my coding, some of the statement i don't know whether is correct or not. Pls helpSmilie

year=`date '+%Y'`
month=`date '+%m'`
day=`date '+%d'`
day=`expr $day - 1`

case $month in
1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 12);;
if [ $day = 0 ]; then
day=32
day1=$day-1
fi

4 | 6 | 11);;
if [ $day = 0 ]; then
day=31
day1=$day-1'
fi

2);;
if [ $month Mod 4 =0]; then
if[ $day = 0 ]; then
day = 30
day1 =%day-1
fi
else
if[ $day = 0 ]; then
day = 29
day1 =$day-1'
fi
fi

*) echo error: too many arguments 1>&2 ;;
esac

DATE=$year$month$day1
mv $HOME/*$DATE*log $HOME/archive
cd $HOME/archive
gzip *

Last edited by dannyd_y; 05-02-2008 at 06:03 AM..
 

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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
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