Hello Friends
I have three dirs
1. /home/main-bkup
2. /home/bkup-week1
3. /home/bkup-week2
Now we copy backups in 1 initially, then on 1st week we copy few content of 1 into 2 and then run some scripts on that. Then in 2nd week we keep 2 untouched and do the same thing in 3.
So I... (1 Reply)
I am trying to write a script that shows every Friday in a month.
I used
cal $1 $2 | grep -v "^$" | awk '{print $6}'
It doesn't work for the frist week of Friday because calendar command output has some spaces in the first line and awk '{print $6}' doesn't work. Anybody help
me with this... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
It's been a long week and my brain is clearly not functioning right so hopefully someone can help me out here.
I've got a function in a script which just checks if a MySQL database directory exists or not. Code is as follows:
dbCheck2() {
if ;
then {
:
# carry... (4 Replies)
Help please! I need to read the calendar and put the date of the third Friday of each month into a variable for comparison in an "if" statement. How would I do this?
Thnx,
leslie02 (10 Replies)
Freinds,
I need help:
I need to process number of flat files on weekly basis. My source dir will receive flat files regulary at mid night
between 1:00am and 6:00am. When I run my weekly file process it should get only the files which are until last friday
(including friday)and move them in... (1 Reply)
Hi Expert
Please help me to set a cron job schedule,
Ihave a job that run every 3rd Friday of the month at 1030am.
I tried to set up like this, but the job still runs every friday at 1030am.
I want the job to run every 3rd Friday of the month at 1030am only
30 10 15,16,17,18,19,20,21... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I need to find the date of next first Friday of the month and set as a variable in a bash script
ie -
FIRSTFRIDAY=$(date -dfirst-friday +%d)
I know date -dfirst-friday doesn't work, but unsure if I can use this / cal + awk or something else to find the right date of the... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: summerdays
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)