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 $6}' doesn't work. Anybody help
me with this... (3 Replies)
Help please! I need to read the calendar and put the date of the third Friday of each month into a variable for comparison in an "if" statement. How would I do this?
Thnx,
leslie02 (10 Replies)
#!/usr/bin/ksh
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Hello,
I wanted to display the month for previous day date. Like, today date is 18-Nov-2008. So the previous date is 17-Nov-2008. The output should be November.
If the today date is 1-DEC-2008, then output should be NOVEMBER.
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Hi Expert
Please help me to set a cron job schedule,
Ihave a job that run every 3rd Friday of the month at 1030am.
I tried to set up like this, but the job still runs every friday at 1030am.
I want the job to run every 3rd Friday of the month at 1030am only
30 10 15,16,17,18,19,20,21... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I want two dates one will be the current date and the other one will be just one month before. Say if current month is 11/4/2014 then the other date should be 11/3/2014.
#!/bin/ksh
currentDtae=`date`
oneMonthBefore= ?
I dont know how to do it. Went through some of the related threads... (15 Replies)
Hello,
I need to find the date of next first Friday of the month and set as a variable in a bash script
ie -
FIRSTFRIDAY=$(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)