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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support assign yesterday's date to variable Post 302447397 by john1212 on Monday 23rd of August 2010 04:54:55 AM
Old 08-23-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdcwayx
Default date in Solaris don't support these options, such as: show yesterday, show several days/times ago, etc.

You need install GNU date in Solaris. It will make easy for your life.

the GNU date is in coreutils package, which you can download from sunfreeware.com.au and install directly.
If you installed coreutils package, you could do:
Code:
setenv dt `date -d yesterday +"%Y%m%d"`
echo $dt

 

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EPISODER(1)						      General Commands Manual						       EPISODER(1)

NAME
episoder - TV show episode reminder. SYNOPSIS
episoder [options] DESCRIPTION
episoder is a tool to tell you about new episodes of your favourite TV shows Global options -h Show help and quit. -c FILE Use FILE for configuration values (default is ~/.episoder). -b Update episoder's database -B Force-update the database, disregard information on when shows were last updated -v Enable verbose operation -w Enable very verbose (debug) operation -V Show program version and quit -p Show available parsers -l FILE Log to FILE instead of stdout Options for database update -d [YYYY-MM-DD] Remove episodes prior to this date (default: yesterday) -d NUM Remove episodes that aired more than NUM days ago (default: 1) -i Ignore date (don't remove old episodes), overrules -d -f FILE Get data from FILE, ignore configured sources (needs -P) -P PARSER Force PARSER to be used (only in combination with -f) Managing shows -L Display a list of all shows in episoder's database -a URL Add the show located at URL to the database -r ID Remove the show with the number ID from the database -E ID Enable updates for the show with the number ID -D ID Disable updates for the show with the number ID Options for console output -d [YYYY-MM-DD] Only show episodes newer than date (default: yesterday) -d NUM Only show episodes that are less then NUM days old (default: 1) -i Ignore date (overrules -d and -n) -n DAYS Number of future DAYS to show (default: 2). This value is relative to the date set with -d. -s TEXT Search the database for TEXT -C Don't show any colors in the output CONFIG FILE
The configuration file consists of a section with settings for the program and a list of sources to be used to build the database. agent=foo Set the user-agent string to be used by wget (was required when tvtome blocked wget, might not be needed nowadays) data=/path/to/file Specifies the file to be used to store the information about upcoming shows. If, instead of a file, you supply a database url (as expected by sqlalchemy, eg. 'mysql://localhost/episoder'), episoder is going to use that database for storage instead. src=http://some.web.add/ress Each src entry specifies a URL with episode information. Make sure you have the appropriate plugin before adding random new URLs (check with -p). Episoder currently understands the following types of source: src=http://www.epguides.com/CSI/ src=http://www.tv.com/CSI/show/19/ While this in no longer episoder's way of knowing which shows to parse (see ``Managing shows''), for compatibility reasons all shows listed in the config file will automatically be added to episoder's show database (as if specified with -a). format=unquoted format string This allows you to customize episoder's output. Available fields are: %airdate The episode's airdate as YYYY-MM-DD %show Name of the show %season Current season %epnum Episode's number in season %eptitle Title of the episode %totalep Episode's total number %prodnum Production number If undefined, the default value of %airdate %show %seasonx%epnum (eg. "2005-07-29 Monk 4x04") is used. dateformat=unquoted string describing the format Here you can define the date format you'd like to be used for the output. To get a list of all possible fields, see date(1). The default is %a, %b %d, %Y CRON
You might want to have your episode db rebuilt on a regular basis (i.e. daily). The easiest way to achieve this is with a simple cron job: crontab -l > crontab echo "40 5 * * * episoder -b" >> crontab crontab crontab FILES
~/.episoder - default configuration file AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Stefan Ott SEE ALSO
crontab(1). EPISODER(1)
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