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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Obtain date for first Tuesday of every month Post 302872277 by pravin27 on Friday 8th of November 2013 04:58:37 AM
Old 11-08-2013
With full date format "dd-mm-yyyy"
Code:
 for i in `seq 12`; do cal $i `date '+%Y'` | awk -v month=$i -v year=`date '+%Y'` 'NR>2{Sfields=7-NF; if (Sfields == 0 ) {printf "%d-%02d-%d\n",$3,month,year;exit} if ( Sfields == 1) {printf "%d-%02d-%d\n",$2,month,year;exit} if ( Sfields == 2) {printf "%d-%02d-%d\n",$1,month,year;exit}}' ; done

 

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vfprintf - Write a formatted string to a stream

SYNOPSIS
int vfprintf (resource $handle, string $format, array $args) DESCRIPTION
Write a string produced according to $format to the stream resource specified by $handle. Operates as fprintf(3) but accepts an array of arguments, rather than a variable number of arguments. PARAMETERS
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