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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting help required for 'expr substr' function Post 302398143 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 01:14:27 AM
Old 02-24-2010
Do not use spaces around "=" and use $() (or if you have to ``) when assigning values to variables.
e.g.:

Code:
for file in GMG_BASEL2*.txt
do
  m1=$(cat reporting_date.txt)
  year=$(expr substr $m1 7 4)
  echo $year
done

or, using some alternatives
Code:
read m1 < reporting_date.txt
for file in GMG_BASEL2*.txt
do
  year=${m1##*/}
  echo $year
done

 

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GREGORIANTOJD(3)							 1							  GREGORIANTOJD(3)

gregoriantojd - Converts a Gregorian date to Julian Day Count

SYNOPSIS
int gregoriantojd (int $month, int $day, int $year) DESCRIPTION
Valid Range for Gregorian Calendar 4714 B.C. to 9999 A.D. Although this function can handle dates all the way back to 4714 B.C., such use may not be meaningful. The Gregorian calendar was not instituted until October 15, 1582 (or October 5, 1582 in the Julian calendar). Some countries did not accept it until much later. For exam- ple, Britain converted in 1752, The USSR in 1918 and Greece in 1923. Most European countries used the Julian calendar prior to the Grego- rian. PARAMETERS
o $month - The month as a number from 1 (for January) to 12 (for December) o $day - The day as a number from 1 to 31 o $year - The year as a number between -4714 and 9999 RETURN VALUES
The julian day for the given gregorian date as an integer. EXAMPLES
Example #1 Calendar functions <?php $jd = GregorianToJD(10, 11, 1970); echo "$jd "; $gregorian = JDToGregorian($jd); echo "$gregorian "; ?> SEE ALSO
jdtogregorian(3), cal_to_jd(3). PHP Documentation Group GREGORIANTOJD(3)
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