I'm hoping I have understood the request correctly, so I will have a go with a ksh script.
You will need to check that the manual page for date agrees with the options at the top.
There is probably a neat way in perl to convert the date into seconds and calculate there before returning to a date format.
I hope that this helps and the logic I have used is clear.
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 $6}' doesn't work. Anybody help
me with this... (3 Replies)
Help please! I need to read the calendar and put the date of the third Friday of each month into a variable for comparison in an "if" statement. How would I do this?
Thnx,
leslie02 (10 Replies)
#!/usr/bin/ksh
Does anyone have a good way to set a variable to last month?
For example, today is 20070810. I would like to use the date command to set a variable to last months %m code, which is 07. If I pluck this months value (08) and user expr to do simple math on it, it returns 7 (not... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I wanted to display the month for previous day date. Like, today date is 18-Nov-2008. So the previous date is 17-Nov-2008. The output should be November.
If the today date is 1-DEC-2008, then output should be NOVEMBER.
If the today date is 1-JAN-2008, then output should be DECEMBER.... (4 Replies)
I needed a cron job to run on the second to last friday of every month. Our servers are running HP-UX, and the HP-UX date command is pretty basic and does not have all of the fancy options that Linux date command does, and it does not have the ability at all to return future dates. So I had to... (0 Replies)
Hi Expert
Please help me to set a cron job schedule,
Ihave a job that run every 3rd Friday of the month at 1030am.
I tried to set up like this, but the job still runs every friday at 1030am.
I want the job to run every 3rd Friday of the month at 1030am only
30 10 15,16,17,18,19,20,21... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want two dates one will be the current date and the other one will be just one month before. Say if current month is 11/4/2014 then the other date should be 11/3/2014.
#!/bin/ksh
currentDtae=`date`
oneMonthBefore= ?
I dont know how to do it. Went through some of the related threads... (15 Replies)
Hello,
I need to find the date of next first Friday of the month and set as a variable in a bash script
ie -
FIRSTFRIDAY=$(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 SUNOS
cal
cal(1) User Commands cal(1)NAME
cal - display a calendar
SYNOPSIS
cal [ [month] year]
DESCRIPTION
The cal utility writes a Gregorian calendar to standard output. If the year operand is specified, a calendar for that year is written. If
no operands are specified, a calendar for the current month is written.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
month Specify the month to be displayed, represented as a decimal integer from 1 (January) to 12 (December). The default is the current
month.
year Specify the year for which the calendar is displayed, represented as a decimal integer from 1 to 9999. The default is the current
year.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of cal: LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_TIME,
LC_MESSAGES, and NLSPATH.
TZ Determine the timezone used to calculate the value of the current month.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWesu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Standard |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO calendar(1), attributes(5), environ(5), standards(5)NOTES
An unusual calendar is printed for September 1752. That is the month 11 days were skipped to make up for lack of leap year adjustments. To
see this calendar, type:
cal 9 1752
The command cal 83 refers to the year 83, not 1983.
The year is always considered to start in January.
SunOS 5.10 1 Feb 1995 cal(1)