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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Please explain what this code is doing Post 302437435 by sendtoshailesh on Thursday 15th of July 2010 05:30:59 AM
Old 07-15-2010
Please explain what this code is doing

Hi,

Pls explain me what the below code is doing. specially meaning if -a while calling test function-


Code:
case $1 in
1) beg_dt=01; end_dt=07 ;;
2) beg_dt=08; end_dt=14 ;;
3)  beg_dt=15; end_dt=21 ;;
4) beg_dt=22; end_dt=28 ;;
5) beg_dt=29; end_dt=31  ;;
esac test \( `date +%w` -eq $2 -a `date +%d` -ge $beg_dt -a `date +%d` -le $end_dt  \)
RC=$?
exit $RC


Thanks,
Shailesh

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