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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Date validation Post 302980558 by srinadhreddy27 on Tuesday 30th of August 2016 08:17:35 AM
Old 08-30-2016
Lightbulb Date validation
Hi folks,

I new to shell script .
I want to know how to validate a String as valid date

example:
Code:
20150712 ---> valid date
20160524-->valid
201605T12-->invalid date
12341234--->invalid date

we need to valid string( yyyymmdd) to date in SunOS 5.10

please give some idea to validate

Thanks,
Srinadh.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-02-2016 at 07:44 AM.. Reason: Add CODE and ICODE tags.
 

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lorax

LORAX(1)						      General Commands Manual							  LORAX(1)

NAME

       lorax - Create installer boot iso

SYNOPSIS

       lorax -p PRODUCT -v VERSION -r RELEASE -s REPOSITORY OUTPUTDIR

DESCRIPTION

       lorax is used to create the installer boot iso.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      show this help message and exit

       -V     show program's version number and exit

REQUIRED ARGUMENTS
:
       -p STRING, --product=STRING
	      product name

       -v STRING, --version=STRING
	      version identifier

       -r STRING, --release=STRING
	      release information

       -s REPOSITORY, --source=REPOSITORY
	      source repository (may be listed multiple times)

OPTIONAL ARGUMENTS
:
       -m REPOSITORY, --mirrorlist=REPOSITORY
	      mirrorlist repository (may be listed multiple times)

       -t STRING, --variant=STRING
	      variant name

       -b URL, --bugurl=URL
	      bug reporting URL for the product

       --isfinal

       -c STRING, --config=STRING
	      config file

       --proxy=STRING
	      repo proxy url:port

       -e STRING, --excludepkgs=STRING
	      package glob to exclude (may be listed multiple times)

       --buildarch=STRING
	      build architecture

       --volid=STRING
	      volume id

       --nomacboot

       --noupgrade

       --logfile=LOGFILE
	      Path to logfile

       --tmp=TMP
	      Top level temporary directory

AUTHORS

       Martin Gracik
       Will Woods
       Brian C. Lane

								    2013-07-26								  LORAX(1)
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