First off: post your OS and shell versions so people in here know what they are dealing with. Assuming bash for now.
Your question is way from clear. Are you saying that your day-of-week check doesn't work and you need it controlled / corrected?
If so: your [ (synonym for the test command / builtin) syntax is wrong, as is the "command substitution" syntax. Try
If this is not sufficiently helpful info, carefully rephrase your request.
Hi ,
I am relatively new to unix...
Can u pls help me out to find out if the first day of the month is a working day ie from (Monday to Friday)...using Date and If clause in Korn shell..
This is very urgent.
Thanks for ur help... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I need to develop a script to check for the day. If the day is a Saturday then the script should check if the Saturday is the last Saturday of the month so that certain set of instruction can be executed is it is the last Saturday. I do not want to use the crontab as this needs to be part... (9 Replies)
Hi ,
I have a date parameter passed in YYYYMMDD format , how can I check whether it is Sat or Sun on Solaris box , as we can do the same easily on linux box by using date -d YYYYMMDD '+a' .
Any pointres will be really helpful . (5 Replies)
Hello,
I want to checkl whether my file has text in it or not.
if ; then
...
if ; then
...
But none of these work
Can someone help me?
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The code-tags caused an displayerror,... (5 Replies)
Hello All,
I need a bash shell script to find out a day from the date.For example we give the date(20100227/YYYYMMDD) then we get the day 'Saturday'.
Thanks in advance,
Satheesh (5 Replies)
Hi, I need a sample of a script that will check a specific directory multiple times throughout the day, and scp the newest file to another server.
Example: current file is misc_file.txt_02272011 (the last part is the date), once that has been secure copied, another one may come in later the... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I would like to write a script that checks if a file ('counter') was modified the previous day, if so erase its contents and write 00000000 into it.
For e.g. if the file 'counter' was last modified at 11.30pm on 24th May and the script runs at 12.15am of 25th May, it should erase it's... (1 Reply)
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
The script usage will be as follows:
library.third source_directory
- Your script will display an appropriate error message and exit with status 3 if no parameters are given
- Your script will display an appropriate error... (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I currently have a UNIX file maintenance script that runs daily as a cron job.
Now I want to change the script and create functions/sub inside it that runs on a weekly or monthly basis.
To run all the scripts' daily maintenance, I want to schedule it in cron as simply maint.sh... (1 Reply)
hi guys
we've had nagios spewing false alarm (for the umpteenth time) and finally the customer had enough so they're starting to question nagios. we had the check interval increased from 5 minutes to 2 minutes, but that's just temporary solution. I'm thinking of implementing a script on the... (8 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
crontab
crontab(5) File Formats Manual crontab(5)Name
crontab - clock daemon table file
Syntax
/usr/lib/crontab
Description
The command executes at specified dates and times according to the instructions in the file. The file consists of lines with six fields
each. The format for a line is as follows:
minute hour day month weekday command
The following list defines each field in the line:
minute (0-59) The exact minute that the command sequence executes.
hour (0-23) The hour of the day that the command sequence executes.
day (1-31) The day of the month that the command sequence executes.
month (1-12) The month of the year that the command sequence executes.
weekday (1-7) The day of the week that the command sequence executes. Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, and so forth.
command The complete command sequence variable that is to be executed. Note that the command string must conform to Bourne shell
syntax.
The first five integer fields may be specified as follows:
o A single number in the specified range
o Two numbers separated by a minus, meaning a range inclusive
o A list of numbers separated by commas, meaning any of the numbers
o An asterisk meaning all legal values
The sixth field is a string that is executed by the shell at the specified times. A percent sign (%) in this field is translated to a new-
line character. Only the first line of the command field, up to a percent sign (%) or end of line, is executed by the shell. The other
lines are made available to the command as standard input.
Examples
The following example is part of a file:
# periodic things
0,15,30,45 * * * * (echo '^M' `date`; echo '') >/dev/console
0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/lib/atrun
# daily stuff
5 4 * * * sh /usr/adm/newsyslog
15 4 * * * ( cd /usr/preserve; find . -mtime +7 -a -exec rm -f {} ; )
20 4 * * * find /usr/msgs -mtime +21 -a ! -perm 444 -a ! -name bounds
-a -exec rm -f {} ;
# NOTE: The above line is wrapped.
# local cleanups
30 4 * * * find /usr/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +5 -name df-exec rm {} ;
35 4 * * * find /usr/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +5 -name tf-exec rm {} ;
40 4 * * * find /usr/spool/rwho -type f -mtime +21 -exec rm {} ;
#
# redirecting error output
0 17 * * 1,3,5 /bin/tar -cv /usr/sysads/smith > /dev/console 2>&1
#
FilesSee Alsosh(1), cron(8)
Guide to System Environment Setup
crontab(5)