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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting To Check whether the Input is a Year or Not? Post 302682553 by Don Cragun on Monday 6th of August 2012 11:38:03 AM
Old 08-06-2012
Note that
Code:
case $Test_Var in

[1000-9999] )  echo "It is a Year";;
 * )           echo "Is is not a Year";;
esac

will match a single character that is 1, 0, 0, any single digit in the range 0 through 9, 9, 9, or 9. So if Test_var had been set to "6", it would say it is a year. Bracket expressions don't look for ranges of numeric values.

Hope this helps you understand what was going wrong.
 

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holidays(4)							   File Formats 						       holidays(4)

NAME
holidays - prime/nonprime table for the accounting system SYNOPSIS
/etc/acct/holidays DESCRIPTION
The /etc/acct/holidays file describes which hours are considered prime time and which days are holidays. Holidays and weekends are con- sidered non-prime time hours. /etc/acct/holidays is used by the accounting system. All lines beginning with an "*" are comments. The /etc/acct/holidays file consists of two sections. The first non-comment line defines the current year and the start time of prime and non-prime time hours, in the form: current_year prime_start non_prime_start The remaining non-comment lines define the holidays in the form: month/day company_holiday Of these two fields, only the month/day is actually used by the accounting system programs. The /etc/acct/holidays file must be updated each year. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Example of the /etc/acct/holidays file. The following is an example of the /etc/acct/holidays file: * Prime/Nonprime Table for the accounting system * * Curr Prime Non-Prime * Year Start Start * 1991 0830 1800 * * only the first column (month/day) is significant. * * month/day Company Holiday * 1/1 New Years Day 5/30 Memorial Day 7/4 Indep. Day 9/5 Labor Day 11/24 Thanksgiving Day 11/25 day after Thanksgiving 12/25 Christmas 12/26 day after Christmas SEE ALSO
acct(1M) SunOS 5.10 28 Mar 1991 holidays(4)
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