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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to Find number of days in a month in mmddyyyy format? Post 302576663 by Gaurav198 on Friday 25th of November 2011 01:16:34 PM
Old 11-25-2011
Thanks Tyler and MacMonmster...for the response.
I am on sunos and dont have perl.
Bash script is fine, but the -d optionwith date wont work.Macmonster is there any other way to find solution?
 

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