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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Validate long date format in If statement Post 302272583 by Batsies on Wednesday 31st of December 2008 03:31:33 AM
Old 12-31-2008
Solved my problem, with a Case:

case $MONTH_TO_PROCESS in
Jan) echo "Valid" ;;
Feb) echo "Valid" ;;
Mar) echo "Valid" ;;
Apr) echo "Valid" ;;
May) echo "Valid" ;;
Jun) echo "Valid" ;;
Jul) echo "Valid" ;;
Aug) echo "Valid" ;;
Sep) echo "Valid" ;;
Oct) echo "Valid" ;;
Nov) echo "Valid" ;;
Dec) echo "Valid" ;;
*) echo "$MONTH_TO_PROCESS is not a valid month, this should be one of Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec"
exit;;
esac
 

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