Hi I am very new to scripting,
Can someone show me how to (in unix shell script) compare the system's date with a date in a file. The requirement is to somehow open this file (which will only have a date in it) and compare it with today's date. If they are equal execute a procedure below but if... (4 Replies)
I need to get the date one month in the future from today - or 30 days from today etc...
I need this to work all year around - I cannot find anything to solve this issue in the search / faqs etc.... (5 Replies)
Morning
My other issue I have seems very simple but im just not seeing it. I have a script that checks on a remote share to see if the backups for some systems have run. Its as simple as:
find /mnt/ukwcs-net-config/WLAN-Controllers/ -mtime -1 -ls | egrep '(cfg)' > wlanlog.txt
cut -c 1-92... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to show today's date and time in a better format than ‘date' (Using positional parameters). I found a command mktime and am wondering if this is the best command to use or will this also show me the time elapse since 1/30/70? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have some log files. I've been asked to grep out error messages that have happened ONLY today. (However, the logs keep messages a long time so they have error messages going back weeks)
They log details in these fields (order):
Month Day Time Server message
I can grep out the... (8 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file like this:
2012112920121130
12345620121130msABowwiqiq
34477420121129amABamauee
e7748420121130ehABeheheei
in case the content of the file has the date of yesterday within the lines containing pattern AB this should be replaced by the current date. But if I use... (3 Replies)
Hi,
One of my Unix scripts needs to look for files coming in on Fridays. This script runs on Mondays. $date +"%y%m%d" will give me today's date. How can I get previous Friday's date.. can I do "today's date minus 3 days" to get Friday's date? If not, then any other way?? Name of the files is... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have file with number status and date1 and date1 field,
want add a column today between column date1 and date2.
file1.txt
number status date1 date2
===== ==== === =====
34567 open 27/06/13 28/06/13
45678 open 27/06/13 28/06/13
43567 open 27/06/13 28/06/13 ... (1 Reply)
Hi Community!
Following on from this code in another thread:
#!/bin/bash
file_string=`/bin/cat date.txt | /usr/bin/awk '{print $5,$4,$7,$6,$8}'`
file_date=`/bin/date -d "$file_string"`
file_epoch=`/bin/date -d "$file_string" +%s`
now_epoch=`/bin/date +%s`
if
then
#let... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
calendar
calendar(1) General Commands Manual calendar(1)Name
calendar - calendar reminder service
Syntax
calendar [-]
Description
The command consults the file `calendar' in the current directory and prints out lines that contain today's or tomorrow's date. The com-
mand recognizes most month-day dates, such as Dec. 7, december 7, 12/7, but it does not recognize dates formatted in the following ways: 7
December or 7/12. If you give the month as * with a date, such as, * 1, that day in any month will do. On weekends, specifying tomorrow
extends through Monday.
When an argument is present, the command searches through a user's calendar file in his login directory and sends him any positive results
by Normally this is done daily under control of
The calendar file is first run through the C preprocessor, to include any other calendar files specified with the #include syntax.
Included calendars are shared by all users, and are maintained and documented by the local administration.
Options
- Functions for every user who has a calendar file in his login directory.
Restrictions
The extended idea of tomorrow does not account for holidays.
Files
calendar
/usr/lib/calendar to figure out today's and tomorrow's dates
/etc/passwd
/tmp/cal*
/lib/cpp, egrep, sed, mail as subprocesses
See Alsoat(1), cron(8), mail(1)calendar(1)