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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting days are between the two dates? Post 302476736 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 2nd of December 2010 11:15:03 AM
Old 12-02-2010
See if this works in your ksh (ksh-only):
Code:
echo "There are $(( ( $(printf "%(%s)T" 20$Y) - $(printf "%(%s)T" 20$X) ) /3600/24  )) days between X & Y"


Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-02-2010 at 12:46 PM..
 

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let(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            let(1)

NAME
let - shell built-in function to evaluate one or more arithmetic expressions SYNOPSIS
ksh let arg... DESCRIPTION
ksh Each arg is a separate "arithmetic expression" to be evaluated. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 The value of the last expression is non-zero. 1 The value of the last expression is zero. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), set(1), typeset(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 let(1)
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