Hi ,
I am relatively new to unix...
Can u pls help me out to find out if the first day of the month is a working day ie from (Monday to Friday)...using Date and If clause in Korn shell..
This is very urgent.
Thanks for ur help... (7 Replies)
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)
Hello,
I wanted to display the month for previous day date. Like, today date is 18-Nov-2008. So the previous date is 17-Nov-2008. The output should be November.
If the today date is 1-DEC-2008, then output should be NOVEMBER.
If the today date is 1-JAN-2008, then output should be DECEMBER.... (4 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,
How do I convert unix timestamp value to 'normal' date format - to get year month and day values ?
Looks like it's easy to do using GNU date (linux systems). But how do I do tthis on AIX ?
I don't want to write C program, any ways to do that using unix shells ?
thanks (1 Reply)
Hi,
I would like to write a script that checks if a file ('counter') was modified the previous day, if so erase its contents and write 00000000 into it.
For e.g. if the file 'counter' was last modified at 11.30pm on 24th May and the script runs at 12.15am of 25th May, it should erase it's... (1 Reply)
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 have a requirement where I need to first capture the current day & move all the files from a particular directory based on a previous day.
i.e move all the files from one directory to another based on current day & a previous day. Here is what I am trying, but it gives me errors.... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
i am using the below code get the date of previous day.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
datestamp=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
yest=$((datestamp -1))
echo $yest
When i execute the code i am getting output as:
20130715
What i am trying here is, based on the date passed i am fetching previus day's... (0 Replies)
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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)