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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get current day on Julian date format Post 302488929 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 18th of January 2011 10:06:01 PM
Old 01-18-2011
How about:

Code:
$ my_day_var=21
$ date -d $(date +%b-$my_day_var-%Y) +%y%j
11021


Last edited by Chubler_XL; 01-18-2011 at 11:14 PM..
 

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CONJUNCT(1)						      General Commands Manual						       CONJUNCT(1)

NAME
conjunct - find dates of equinox or new or full moon SYNOPSIS
conjunct [options] DESCRIPTION
conjunct searches for one of these events: spring equinox (default), summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice, new moon, or full moon. OPTIONS
-s, --start date Set starting date (default is current date). The date may be either a Julian day number (e.g. 2454180.0 for noon, 2007 March 20) or an ISO 8601 date (e.g. 2007-03-20). -e, --end date Set ending date (default is one year from now). -V, --vernal, --spring Search for spring equinox (default). -S, --summer Search for summer solstice. -A, --autumn, --fall Search for autumn equinox. -W, --winter Search for winter solstice. -N, --newmoon Search for new moon. -F, --fullmoon Search for full moon. -h, --help Show summary of options. SEE ALSO
aa(1). AUTHOR
conjunct was written by Stephen L. Moshier <steve@moshier.net>. This manual page was written by James R. Van Zandt <jrv@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). August 24, 2006 CONJUNCT(1)
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