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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to extract the day of the year and use that info to copy a file remotely Post 302558530 by tmozdzen on Friday 23rd of September 2011 09:15:17 PM
Old 09-23-2011
How to extract the day of the year and use that info to copy a file remotely

Hello,
Thank you in advance for helping a newbie who is having great trouble with this simple task.

I'm allowed to copy one file remotely each night due to bandwidth restrictions.
A new file gets generated once a day, and I need to copy the previous day's file.

Here is what I'd like to do:
write a program that gets fired off from a listing in the crontab file:
1) detect/calculate the day of the year (example: Feb 28 = day 59).
2) Append the day of year onto a file name (example: big_file_169.data)
3) Do a remote copy using scp or rsync or something.

and that's it.
I'm using a bash shell but can switch to a tshell if that helps.

Thanks again in advance.
Tom
 

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CAL_FROM_JD(3)								 1							    CAL_FROM_JD(3)

cal_from_jd - Converts from Julian Day Count to a supported calendar

SYNOPSIS
array cal_from_jd (int $jd, int $calendar) DESCRIPTION
cal_from_jd(3) converts the Julian day given in $jd into a date of the specified $calendar. Supported $calendar values are CAL_GREGORIAN, CAL_JULIAN, CAL_JEWISH and CAL_FRENCH. PARAMETERS
o $jd - Julian day as integer o $calendar - Calendar to convert to RETURN VALUES
Returns an array containing calendar information like month, day, year, day of week, abbreviated and full names of weekday and month and the date in string form "month/day/year". EXAMPLES
Example #1 cal_from_jd(3) example <?php $today = unixtojd(mktime(0, 0, 0, 8, 16, 2003)); print_r(cal_from_jd($today, CAL_GREGORIAN)); ?> The above example will output: Array ( [date] => 8/16/2003 [month] => 8 [day] => 16 [year] => 2003 [dow] => 6 [abbrevdayname] => Sat [dayname] => Saturday [abbrevmonth] => Aug [monthname] => August ) SEE ALSO
cal_to_jd(3), jdtofrench(3), jdtogregorian(3), jdtojewish(3), jdtojulian(3), jdtounix(3). PHP Documentation Group CAL_FROM_JD(3)
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