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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Treating string as date ? Post 302598691 by Sara_84 on Wednesday 15th of February 2012 06:24:07 AM
Old 02-15-2012
Treating string as date ?

Is there a way to treat a string as date and compare it to the current date?

lets assum inpu lik

Code:
$ cat myfile
 
Name   Last login
**************************
Sara      2/13/2012
kalpeer   2/15/2012
ygemici   2/14/2012


we want to display the name who logged in during the last # of days.

"`date +%D`" will give us the day of the year ( which is 043 for today)
is there a method to compare the dates in the input to the current day?

Last edited by Franklin52; 02-15-2012 at 08:35 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
 

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hdate_struct(3) 						libhdate C language						   hdate_struct(3)

NAME
hdate_struct - libhdate Hebrew date struct SYNOPSIS
#include <hdate.h> Data Fields int hd_day int hd_mon int hd_year int gd_day int gd_mon int gd_year int hd_dw int hd_size_of_year int hd_new_year_dw int hd_year_type int hd_jd int hd_days int hd_weeks Detailed Description libhdate Hebrew date struct Field Documentation int hdate_struct::hd_day The number of day in the hebrew month (1..31). int hdate_struct::hd_mon The number of the hebrew month 1..14 (1 - tishre, 13 - adar 1, 14 - adar 2). int hdate_struct::hd_year The number of the hebrew year. int hdate_struct::gd_day The number of the day in the month. (1..31) int hdate_struct::gd_mon The number of the month 1..12 (1 - jan). int hdate_struct::gd_year The number of the year. int hdate_struct::hd_dw The day of the week 1..7 (1 - sunday). int hdate_struct::hd_size_of_year The length of the year in days. int hdate_struct::hd_new_year_dw The week day of Hebrew new year. int hdate_struct::hd_year_type The number type of year. int hdate_struct::hd_jd The Julian day number int hdate_struct::hd_days The number of days passed since 1 tishrey int hdate_struct::hd_weeks The number of weeks passed since 1 tishrey Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for libhdate C language from the source code. Version 1.4 Sun Jan 8 2012 hdate_struct(3)
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