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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Passing info from other file into command Post 302343899 by zaxxon on Friday 14th of August 2009 03:38:25 AM
Old 08-14-2009
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You don't want to hardcode, that's ok.
But wouldn't it be more helpful if you'd just check which day today is ie. with the Unix week day like:
Code:
date +%w
5

where it's output number is read as following
Code:
1 = monday
2 = tuesday
3 = wednesday
4 = thursday
5 = friday
6 = saturday
0 = sunday

You could check which day it is and then decide in a case construct for example which tape to use.

Quote:
but when I changed TUE_TAPE-TST to $TAPE_BACKUP variable the command is not working.
Why should it work? In your excerpts I can't see any definition of $TAPE_BACKUP.

The whole thing could be automated, including your sudo and backup commands. As said, I would try to get the current date 1st and then decide by this which tape to use.
 

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widget_calendar(3tk)					    widget::calendar Megawidget 				      widget_calendar(3tk)

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NAME

       widget_calendar - widget::calendar Megawidget

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.4

       package require Tk  8.4

       package require widget  ?3.0?

       widget::calendar pathname ?options?

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DESCRIPTION

       This package provides a calendar megawidget (snidget).  It makes use of the Tile/Ttk themed widget set.

       widget::calendar pathname ?options?

WIDGET OPTIONS

       -command
	      A script to evaluate when a date was selected.

       -dateformat
	      The format of the date that is returned. Default: %m/%d/%Y.

       -firstday
	      Set first day the week, Either sunday or monday. It defaults to monday.

       -font  Select the font used in the widget. It defaults to Helvetica 9.

       -highlightcolor
	      Selects the background color for the day that has been selected. Default: #FFCC00

       -language
	      Specify  language of the calendar contents. The language is specified by abbreviations of the languge, for example: en - english, de
	      - german ...  It defaults to en.

	      Supported languages: en, de, fr, it, es, pt, ru, sv, zh, fi

       -shadecolor
	      Selects the color of the parts that have a shaded background. Default: #888888

       -showpast
	      Specify if the past shall be shown. It is a boolean value and defaults to 1.

       -textvariable
	      Specifies the name of a variable whose value is linked to the entry widget's contents.  Whenever the  variable  changes  value,  the
	      widget's contents are updated, and vice versa.

WIDGET COMMAND

       pathname get what

       Returns	part of the selected date or 'all'. The argument what selects the part. Valid values for what are: day, month, year and all, 'all'
       is the default.

EXAMPLE

	      package require widget::calendar ; # or widget::all
	      set t [widget::calendar .t]
	      pack $t -fill x -expand 1

KEYWORDS

       megawidget, snit, widget

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