1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Could you pls help me out in finding the name of next month.? For eg: date +"%b" gives the current month ie 'Jul' I want to get the output as 'Aug' Thanks, Jerry (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, What is the actual difference between these two? Why the following code works for process substitution and fails for command substitution? while IFS= read -r line; do echo $line; done < <(cat file)executes successfully and display the contents of the file But, while IFS='\n' read -r... (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi folks month=`date +%m`gives current month Howto print previous month (current month minus 1) with Solaris date and ksh (7 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I am trying to come up with a shell script to count a specific word in a logfile on each day of this month, last month and the month before. I need to produce this report and email it to customer. Any ideas would be appreciated! (5 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have requirment to get last date of previous month and the first date of previous 4th month: Example: Current date: 20130320 (yyyymmdd) Last date of previous month: 20130228 (yyyymmdd) First date of previous 4th month: 20121101 (yyyymmdd) In my shell --date, -d, -v switches are not... (3 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Please can someone help me in getting first sunday date of a month. i_year=`date +%Y` ny_first_sun_nov=`cal 10 $i_year | sed '/^$/d' |head -3 |tail -1| rev | cut -c1` This works good if the first sunday has a value but not if it is blank and first sunday falls on second week. ... (17 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I have a script that accepts an input date from the user in yyyy-mm-dd format. I need to get the mm-dd part and convert it to month name. example: 2011-11-15 I want that to become "Nov 15" I don't have the GNU date, I am using an AIX os. Thanks. (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, i`m looking for some way to add to some date an partial number of months, for example to 2015y 02m 27d + 2,54m i need to write this script in php or bash or sh or mysql or perl in normal time o unix time i`m asking or there are any simple way to add partial number of month to some... (14 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I need all file names in a folder which has date >= 10th of last month, Example : files in folder AUTO_F1_20140610.TXT BUTO_F1_20140616.TXT CUTO_F1_20140603.TXT FA_AUTO_06012014.TXT LA_AUTO_06112014.TXT MA_AUTO_06212014.TXT ZA_AUTO_06232014.TXT Output: AUTO_F1_20140610.TXT... (9 Replies)

10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, How to get last month files. Ex : 1st Jan i have to get Dec 31 days files and on Feb 1st i have to get Jan 31 days files and on Mar 1st i have to get Feb 28 days files. Below are the example files with date and timestamp. aaa.txt.timestamp aaa.txt.timestamp aaa.txt.timestamp Please... (7 Replies)