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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get day of week from cal Post 302384362 by bzylg on Tuesday 5th of January 2010 03:12:34 AM
Old 01-05-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Do you not have gnu date?
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo $(( $(date -d "$1" +%w ) + 1 ))

Hi Scrutinizer, I assume not as I m currently unavailable to the target system. Thanks for your reply I will first try yours when I get to the system. Anyway I figured out a way to do this, may seem stupid.

Code:
#! /bin/bash 

YEAR=`echo $1 | cut -c 1-4`
MONTH=`echo $1 | cut -c 5-6`
DAY=`echo $1 | cut -c 7-8`

for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
do        dayofweek=`cal $MONTH $YEAR | awk -v day=$DAY -v tarRow=$i '$tarRow == day {print($tarRow)}'`

        if [ "$dayofweek" != "" ];
        then

                echo $i
                break;
        fi
done

In work it's Unix/Solaris, in home it's OSX, seems "date -d" doesn't work under OSX.
 

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INTLCALENDAR.GETDAYOFWEEKTYPE(3)					 1					  INTLCALENDAR.GETDAYOFWEEKTYPE(3)

IntlCalendar::getDayOfWeekType - Tell whether a day is a weekday, weekend or a day that has a transition between the two

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public int IntlCalendar::getDayOfWeekType (int $dayOfWeek) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style int intlcal_get_day_of_week_type (IntlCalendar $cal, int $dayOfWeek) Returns whether the passed day is a weekday ( IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKDAY), a weekend day ( IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND), a day dur- ing which a transition occurs into the weekend ( IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_OFFSET) or a day during which the weekend ceases ( IntlCal- endar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_CEASE). If the return is either IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_OFFSET or IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_CEASE, then IntlCalendar.getWeekendTransi- tion(3) can be called to obtain the time of the transition. This function requires ICU 4.4 or later. PARAMETERS
o $cal - The IntlCalendar resource. o $dayOfWeek - One of the constants IntlCalendar::DOW_SUNDAY, IntlCalendar::DOW_MONDAY, , IntlCalendar::DOW_SATURDAY. RETURN VALUES
Returns one of the constants IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKDAY, IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND, IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_OFFSET or IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_CEASE or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 IntlCalendar.getDayOfWeekType(3) <?php foreach (array('en_US', 'ar_SA') as $locale) { echo "Locale: ", Locale::getDisplayName($locale, "en_US"), " "; $cal = IntlCalendar::createInstance('UTC', $locale); for ($i = IntlCalendar::DOW_SUNDAY; $i <= IntlCalendar::DOW_SATURDAY; $i++) { echo $i, " ", $cal->getDayOfWeekType($i), " ", $cal->getDayOfWeekType($i) >= IntlCalendar::DOW_TYPE_WEEKEND_OFFSET ? $cal->getWeekendTransition($i) : '', " "; } echo " "; } The above example will output: Locale: English (United States) 1 3 86400000 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 0 6 0 7 1 Locale: Arabic (Saudi Arabia) 1 0 2 0 3 0 4 0 5 1 6 3 86400000 7 0 PHP Documentation Group INTLCALENDAR.GETDAYOFWEEKTYPE(3)
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