How to find the first day of previous month in unix mmddyyyy format?
example : today is 07052007 (in mmddyyyy)
output sud be 06012007
thanks
mohapatra (10 Replies)
Hi,
I want a script(ksh) to see if today is the last working day(Mon-Fri) of the month. If it is the last working day I need to print current date, else I need the last working day of previous month. Thanks in advance. (1 Reply)
Hi, I'm new with Unix, I'm trying to get a last day of previous month with this format: %b %d %Y (example: Feb 25 2008).
Here is what I have so far.
#!/bin/ksh
cur_month=`date +%m`
cur_year=`date +%Y`
prev_month=$(($cur_month-1))
# Check to see if this is January
if
then
... (11 Replies)
Hello - I have one question regarding the date. I wanted to display the month name for previous day. The output should be as follows...
5-Feb-09 => February
1-Feb-09 => January
28-Feb-09=> February
Here is the code i am using to get the output....
date '+%m %d %Y' |
{
read MONTH DAY... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to shell scripting.
We've develop a script which will grep a file on the search criteria, MON (Jan/Feb/Mar/etc). But we should set this sript in cron which will run on every first day of the month. The problem I'm having is, when I run the script, it is displaying the contents of... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to find the previous month last day minus one day, using shell script. Can you guys help me to do this.
My Requirment is as below:
Input for me will be 2000909(YYYYMM)
I need the previous months last day minus 1 day timestamp. That is i need 2000908 months last day minus ... (3 Replies)
Hi Guys,
How to get First day of previous month and last day of previous month from trunc(sysdate) using SQL..?
Thanks in advance.
Br,
pinpe (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using the below code to get the year and month from date:
Below gives output like 201212.
dt=`date '+%Y%m'`
how do i get the previous month value(ie: subtract 1 from date)
example output:
dt=201211
Please help. :confused: (3 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)
Discussion started by: machomaddy
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)