1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am familiar with using the 'date' command to get the current date but I have a situation where I need to get the previous day's date as well as the date two days prior. Theoretically I could use 'expr' to compute these values but I need it to work in instances where the previous month's dates... (2 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, I'm doing automation task for my team and I just started to learn unix scripting so please shed some light on how to do this: 1) I have 2 sets of datafiles - datafile A and B. These datafiles must be loaded subsequently and cannot be loaded concurrently. 2) So I loaded datafile A... (10 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all. I am scripting in a POSIX shell on HPUX. I am running a script that needs to determine the number of days in a month. I found this on the forum and it works great: X=`cal $(date +%m) $(date +%Y) | grep -v '' | wc -w` The issue is that I am running the script on the 7th day of... (11 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I need to append previous days date to my file which is generated using a script. I am working on Solaris 10. Thanks! (2 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi i know how to get no of files in some particular folder by following command which includes today and previous days files also ls |wc -l but i needed a command in which i can list previous one or two days files only. (4 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

#!/bin/ksh day=1 month=1 year=2012 if then then prevmonth=31 elif then prevmonth=30 elif then then prevmonth=29 elif then prevmonth=29 else prevmonth=28 fi (4 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Ok, the title is confusing i know, but it is a weird question. I have a bash script running on Centos5.8 and want to find a better way to do some date manipulation. What i am trying to do is get 3 days of files (day before, that day, and day after), concatenate the three files and pass them on... (2 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

---------- Post updated at 03:42 AM ---------- Previous update was at 03:38 AM ---------- Sorry for a duplicate post, my post at the first place could not appear due to some net issue on my machine. Here is what i posted earlier: Hi, i am using ksh in Solaris, i wanted to assign today's,... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Group, We want to create a script in order to filter process in the system with more than five days (STIME) and then kill them under Solaris 10. How can we filter these kind of process ? ps -efa Thanks in advance for your help (4 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all, As i am new to shell script.Please help me to write a Shell script to find out process name that are running for last 10 days. Thank's in advance. (8 Replies)