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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading in MM/DD/YY, find Day of Week Post 302909982 by blackrageous on Monday 21st of July 2014 05:27:01 PM

07-21-2014

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Hint, this works in BASH

Code:

date --date="07/01/14" +%u

1-7, where 1 is monday

So here is an example using an associative array to convert number to day of week

Code:

WEEK[1]="MONDAY"; WEEK["2"]="TUESDAY"; WEEK["3"]="WEDNESDAY"; WEEK["4"]="THURSDAY"; WEEK[5]="FRIDAY"; WEEK[6]="SATURDAY"; WEEK[7]="SUNDAY"
DAY_OF_WEEK=`date --date=${1} +%u`
echo "DAY OF WEEK number is : ${DAY_OF_WEEK} and that is day of week: ${WEEK[${DAY_OF_WEEK}]}"

I created that in test script x.sh, so...

Code:

[josephgr@oc0887178221 ~]$ ./x.sh "07/01/14"
DAY OF WEEK number is : 2 and that is day of week: TUESDAY

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