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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Date Compare tool Post 303012965 by barryallen on Tuesday 13th of February 2018 03:39:29 AM
Old 02-13-2018
What operating system are you using?
---This is a Linux.
What shell do you want to use to run your shell script?
---Bash Shell
In what format will dates be entered?
---Date will be entered as YYYYMMDD whcih i have split into 3 variables.
Where will the dates be found? (Are they provided as variables in your shell script? Are they command-line parameters? Are they typed in in response to prompts? Are they found in known files? ...)
---Dates typed in response to prompts.
In what way do you want dates to be compared? (Are you just trying to determine if they specify the same date? Are you trying to determine the number of days between two dates? If your dates includes hours, minutes, and seconds; are you trying to determine the number of seconds between the two dates?).

---i Want to know the difference in Days and not using Datediff or Date. I just need to use simple if ...else and arithmetics. Also look for number of leap years
 

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atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
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