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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding Day of the week from date Post 302460587 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 7th of October 2010 05:36:32 AM
Old 10-07-2010
nawk, not awk

Go here: AWK Language Programming - A Library of awk Functions
Get the code for the mktime() function, which returns epoch seconds from a date. Note: read the article, you need to get several functions, not just one.
The number 0 .. 6 of the day of the week is
Code:
dow= (epochseconds / 86400 ) % 7

If you need day names, then create an array and access each element by dow,
day_name[dow]
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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