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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading in MM/DD/YY, find Day of Week Post 302910017 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 22nd of July 2014 04:43:40 AM

07-22-2014

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Originally Posted by gjws

Thanks, but I think you missed the point of my post. I need to convert the date that is contained in the file, in to a day of the week. I do not need to know the current day of the week according to the system.

Did you try running the suggestion Chubler_XL suggested before saying it won't work? His code won't print the current day's day of week, it will either give you a diagnostic saying that the date utility doesn't recognize a --date option, or it will do what you requested.

What OS are you using?

Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to do. You said you want the output:

Code:

07/01/14 15:47:22               179.9500      MONDAY
07/01/14 16:03:29               3.9500        MONDAY
06/26/14 11:59:43               19.8000	      WEDNESDAY
06/27/14 12:02:43               160.0000      TUESDAY
07/02/14 13:12:35               5.9500        FRIDAY
07/02/14 13:34:17               5.9500        SATURDAY

July 1, 2014 was a Tuesday; not a Monday.
June 26, 2014 was a Thursday; not a Wednesday.
June 27, 2014 was a Friday; not a Tuesday.
And, July 2, 2014 was a Wednesday; not a Friday and a Saturday???

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platform::shell

platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

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NAME

       platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities

SYNOPSIS

       package require platform::shell ?1.1.4?

       platform::shell::generic shell
       platform::shell::identify shell
       platform::shell::platform shell
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DESCRIPTION

       The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell.

       This  package  allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only
       requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine.

       While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of  the  running  shell
       this  is  not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run
       32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers.

       For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will  actually  run  the  installed
       packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software.

COMMANDS

       platform::shell::identify shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::generic shell
	      This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell.

       platform::shell::platform shell
	      This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell.

KEYWORDS

       operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture

platform::shell 						       1.1.4							platform::shell(n)

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