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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing Day in string Post 303030265 by danielshell on Thursday 7th of February 2019 10:38:58 AM
Old 02-07-2019
Passing Day in string
I need to pass days in past 3, 4, 5 day in strings.

Today is Feb 7, so past 3, 4, 5 days are:

Code:
day1="Feb 2"
day2="Feb 3"
day3="Feb 4"

I have set day1 day2 day3 as the variables. So, what I need is to have the day stings to be past 3, 4, 5 days every day.

If it Feb 8, they need to be:
Code:
day1="Feb 3"
day2="Feb 4"
day3="Feb 5"

If it Feb 9, they need to be:
Code:
day1="Feb 4"
day2="Feb 5"
day3="Feb 6"

and so on.

The format of string needs to "Feb 3" (Uppercase for the first letter, Jan, Feb, Mar, etc; space ; numeric for the day of the month).

Thank you so much for your help!
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

exinext

EXINEXT(8)						      System Manager's Manual							EXINEXT(8)

NAME

       exinext - Finding individual retry times

SYNOPSIS

       exinext address|message-id

DESCRIPTION

       A  utility called exinext (mostly a Perl script) provides the ability to fish specific information out of the retry database.  Given a mail
       domain (or a complete address), it looks up the hosts for that domain, and outputs any retry information for the hosts or for  the  domain.
       At present, the retry information is obtained by running exim_dumpdb (see below) and processing the output.  For example:

	 exinext piglet@milne.fict.example
	 kanga.milne.fict.example:192.168.8.1 error 146: Connection refused
	   first failed: 21-Feb-1996 14:57:34
	   last tried:	 21-Feb-1996 14:57:34
	   next try at:  21-Feb-1996 15:02:34
	 roo.milne.fict.example:192.168.8.3 error 146: Connection refused
	   first failed: 20-Jan-1996 13:12:08
	   last tried:	 21-Feb-1996 11:42:03
	   next try at:  21-Feb-1996 19:42:03
	   past final cutoff time

       You  can  also  give  exinext  a  local	part, without a domain, and it will give any retry information for that local part in your default
       domain.	A message id can be used to obtain retry information pertaining to a specific message.	 This  exists  only  when  an  attempt	to
       deliver a message to a remote host suffers a message-specific error (see section 42.2).	exinext is not particularly efficient, but then it
       isn't expected to be run very often.

BUGS

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches
       would be greatly appreciated.

SEE ALSO

       exim(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system
       (but may be used by others).

								  March 26, 2003							EXINEXT(8)
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