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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding Day of the week from date Post 302460755 by ctafret on Thursday 7th of October 2010 01:35:04 PM
Old 10-07-2010
Check out the gnu date command from their corutils ,

Examples of date - GNU Coreutils

You can do this:
$ date -d 20101007 "+%A"
Thursday

You can get the output for whatever date you put in after the -d
Last edited by ctafret; 10-07-2010 at 03:13 PM..
 

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