1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello everybody... I'm a Unix newbie and i just got this task at work to figure out what's wrong with a daily script my team is using. The idea behind the script is that it takes the day before in a yyyymmdd format, find files with that date in a specific directory and executes an (irrelavant)... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi, i was required to write a shell script to get yesterday's date flatfile. but i only know how to get today's date flatfile. Please observed my below scripting: Please help! Thanks ================================================= #!/bin/sh HOST='192.168.1.200' USER='ftp1'... (19 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, I'm very new to script writing - everything I have I got off the Internet. I'm pretty sure I stole this date script from this site. Anyway, the script works great until I try to obtain a date that falls into last year. I can get 'Dec 31, 2009' but nothing earlier. Below is the... (3 Replies)

4. Programming

Hi All, This Monday 15th March 2010, i have faced a weired issue with my Perl script execution, this script is scheduled to run at 1 minute past midnight on daily basis ( 00:01 EST ) generally for fetching previous business date , say if it is Monday it should give last Friday date, for Tuesday... (0 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

i want to store the output of date into a variable and be able to echo out that variable in a sentence. but the below isn't working. <?php #$date_time = date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); putenv("TZ=US/Eastern"); date_time = "date('h:i:s')."\n""; echo ("<li>Today's date is: ($date_time)</li>\n"); ... (1 Reply)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm trying to make a script which you type the year, select the month and day and then create the date in the format 2010-12-7. #!/bin/bash dia () { echo " Seleccione el dia:" select file in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Salir do... (6 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

The 10.Delete data doesnt work at all, plesase anyone could help on that. When I choose options 10 to delete a record it only copy the selected data on the other file dbs1 but doesnt delete it from the database where other records are. #! /bin/bash i="y" echo "Enter name of database " read db... (6 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, Since I m new to shell, I had a hard time to sought out this problem. I have a log file of a utility which tells that batch files are successful with timestamp. Given below is a part of the log file. 2013/03/07 00:13:50 Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) configured -- resuming normal operations... (12 Replies)

9. Homework & Coursework Questions

Use and complete the template provided. The entire template must be completed. If you don't, your post may be deleted! 1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data: Write a script called user.sh that parses the name and password of given in a file (user.txt) and creates the user... (1 Reply)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

i am beginner in bash scripting and i am looking for a command that gives me one minute ago. i am working on unix ware7 and i cant use date -d or date --date command thanks for help !! (4 Replies)