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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Update config file using shell script in Solaris 5.10 Post 302891124 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 4th of March 2014 03:44:07 AM
Old 03-04-2014
I could interpret:
Quote:
the logic required is to add the period to the start date and increment the start date
several ways. Is the setting to be used on the line containing START DATE related to today's date, or just the value currently found in the file? Please describe this in better detail and show us a complete starting config.txt and the exact resulting updated config.txt that you want to be produced (using CODE tags).

Do you have the GNU date utility installed on your system?

What shell are you using?
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

today

mhc(1)							      General Commands Manual							    mhc(1)

NAME

       today - Show your today's schedules.

SYNOPSIS

       today [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the today commands.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       today is a program that show your schedules in MHC repository.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       --format=FORMAT
	      change output format.  FORMAT is 'html' or 'ps.

       --category=CATEGORY
	      Pick only in CATEGORY. '!' and space separated multiple values are allowed.

       --date=strig[+n]
	      Set a period of date. String is one of these: today, tomorrow, sun ... sat, yyyymmdd, yyyymm.  yyyymm lists all days in  the  month.
	      list n+1 days of schedules if +n is given.  default value is 'today+0'

       --mail=ADDRESS
	      Send a e-mail to ADDRESS instead of listing to stdout

SEE ALSO

       adb2mhc(1), gemcal(1), mhc-scan(1), mhc2palm(1), palm2mhc(1), mhc(5).

AUTHOR

       This  program  was  written by Yoshinari Nomura <nom@quickhack.net> and this manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

								    23 Jun 2000 							    mhc(1)
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