'm attempting to script an application for the bash shell. The application needs to check for birthday, but must check the birthday to see if the date is a) in the future b) exists at all (ie Feb 29th during non-leap years). The input is being entered in a YYYYMMDD format, so I was hoping someone... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I need something like,
if the input date is 24/Aug/2008 and the inputvalue is +8 then the result should be 1/Sep/2008 (8 days after the input date)
if the input date is 24/Aug/2008 and the inputvalue is -8 then the result should be 16/Aug/2008 (8 days before the input date)
is there any... (5 Replies)
Hello friends,
I am looking for a script or method that can display all the dates between any 2 given dates.
Input:
Date 1
290109
Date 2
010209
Output:
300109
310109
Please help me. Thanks. :):confused: (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am currently writing a shell script to enter daily reoccurring jobs into the crontab. I want to be able to specify any two dates for which I want these daily jobs to run between.
Below is an example of what I need to be written to crontab.
# Give a start day of 21/10/2009 09:00... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am trying to generate quarter dates with user giving input as begin date and end date. Example: Input by user:
begin_date = "2009-01-01"
end_date = 2010-04-30"
required output:
2009-01-01 2009-03-31 09Q01
2009-04-01 2009-06-30 09Q02
.
.
till
2010-01-01 2010-03-31 10Q01
... (9 Replies)
Ok, so this may be an unusual request. But I have a certificate that expires sometime in may of 2011. Now, i have to monitor this certificate and alert when the current time is within 30 days of may 20, 2011.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use Time::Local;
#
$sec=59;
$min=59;
$hours=23;
$day=31;... (3 Replies)
If I have a script that writes the name of the file based on today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. How would I modify the line echo "filename.${PDY}${CYC}" >>CONTROL to reflect tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and write it to the file called CONTROL? Since ${PDY} shows... (2 Replies)
let says, today is my payroll day (7/26), my next payroll day will be 8/9. i want to generate a shell script to extract 8/9, 8/23, 9/6, and so on for 2010. (2 Replies)
Hello all!
This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix:
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