I am writing a script that requires the number of days in any given month.
In the shell, I can use the command:
cal `date +%m` `date +%Y`| grep -v '' | wc -w
to give me the number of days in the month, but when I assign it to a variable:
VAR=`cal `date +%m` `date +%Y`| grep -v '' | wc... (3 Replies)
Hi all. I am scripting in a POSIX shell on HPUX.
I am running a script that needs to determine the number of days in a month.
I found this on the forum and it works great:
X=`cal $(date +%m) $(date +%Y) | grep -v '' | wc -w`
The issue is that I am running the script on the 7th day of... (11 Replies)
Hi,
I have an issue in date processing, the issue is I have a month as an int ( 1 - 12 ), the weekday as int ( 0 - 6 , 0 = Sunday), and the week day in month as int ( 0 - 5, 5 = last ex: first sunday, last monday, third tuesday ... ), now from those three parameters is there a possible way to... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have an issue in date processing, the issue is I have a month as an int ( 1 - 12 ), the weekday as int ( 0 - 6 , 0 = Sunday), and the week day in month as int ( 0 - 5, 5 = last ex: first sunday, last monday, third tuesday ... ), now from those three parameters is there a possible way to... (2 Replies)
hi all
searched google and here, cant find and am begining to suspect there is no options for this.
shell = born
with either the date or cal command I need to display the number of days in current month. can anyone point me in the right direction? (10 Replies)
Hi Guru's,
I am working on a shell script from past a month and unable to get rid of automating while working with dates,here's what i have.
inital_date=11012011
final_date=11302011
expected_output= has to be in below format PFB
11012011
11022011
11032011
*
*
*
11102011
*
*... (9 Replies)
I wrote the day calculator also in bash. I would like to now, that is it good so?
#!/bin/bash
datum1=`date -d "1991/1/1" "+%s"`
datum2=`date "+%s"`
diff=$(($datum2-$datum1))
days=$(($diff/(60*60*24)))
echo $days
Thanks in advance for your help! (3 Replies)
I have a homework assignment:
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"Display" the number of days in the current month. For example:
September 1996 has 30 days
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I am trying to just display the head of cal to start the sentence.
eg. cal | head
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