This has probably been asked 100 times, but I couldn't find any articles on point. I have a script that runs on the last day of every month at 11:30pm. If cats a number of input tables that were created the previous month (or earlier), combines them into one master file and erases the indivual... (1 Reply)
Hi, I'm new with Unix, I'm trying to get a last day of previous month with this format: %b %d %Y (example: Feb 25 2008).
Here is what I have so far.
#!/bin/ksh
cur_month=`date +%m`
cur_year=`date +%Y`
prev_month=$(($cur_month-1))
# Check to see if this is January
if
then
... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I'm new to shell scripting.
We've develop a script which will grep a file on the search criteria, MON (Jan/Feb/Mar/etc). But we should set this sript in cron which will run on every first day of the month. The problem I'm having is, when I run the script, it is displaying the contents of... (7 Replies)
Can someone help me creating a function which will give me previous months.
like for example if the date is 200902 and if i call my function and pass a parameter 2 i want to get 200812 as the answer.
or if i pass 200902 with a parameter 7 then my function should give me the date as 200807. (1 Reply)
Hi,
On any given day, I want to capture the month that has gone by - said otherwise, how do I capture last month?
expr date '+%m' - 1
Above expression is giving error.
Please advise
thanks
---------- Post updated at 09:28 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:11 AM... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I am using the below code to get the year and month from date:
Below gives output like 201212.
dt=`date '+%Y%m'`
how do i get the previous month value(ie: subtract 1 from date)
example output:
dt=201211
Please help. :confused: (3 Replies)
I have requirment to get last date of previous month and the first date of previous 4th month:
Example:
Current date: 20130320 (yyyymmdd)
Last date of previous month: 20130228 (yyyymmdd)
First date of previous 4th month: 20121101 (yyyymmdd)
In my shell --date, -d, -v switches are not... (3 Replies)
could you please assist the below query.
i had written the below piece of code to copy the files from one directory to another. For current month files had been copied ,unfortunately the previous month files not copied.
Please find the below directory structure:-
ls -lrt
total 1824... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: venkat918
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receive - receive files from the sendfile spool
SYNOPSIS
receive [ -d ] [ -r ] [ -k ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -Z spool ] [ -q ] [ -ffrom ] file [...]
receive -n [ -d ] [ -r ] [ -k ] [ -P ] [ -S ] [ -Z spool ] [ -q ] file-number [...]
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DESCRIPTION
receive files from the sendfile spool which has been sent to you.
If there is already a file with the same name you will be prompted for overwriting or renaming.
Allowed wildcards in file names are: * ? [abc] [^abc]
CAUTION: you have to put wildcards and other special characters in '' quotes to hide them for interpretation by your shell.
OPTIONS -n receive file number(s)
-d delete instead of receive
-a receive (or delete or bounce) all files
-r rename before receiving
-k keep files in spool after receiving
-P pipe files to stdout
-S receive only pgp-signed files
-s list files in short format
-l list files
-L list files and look inside archives, too
-R renumber files in spool
-b bounce (forward) files to another recipient
-q quiet mode: no questions asked
-fuser all actions refer only to files from this user
-Z spool
specify an alternate spool directory
EXAMPLES
receive -L
list all files in long format.
receive 'blubb*'
receive all files starting with string "blubb".
receive -daf microsoft.com
delete all files from microsoft.com sites.
receive -b framstag@bofh '*.jpg'
bounce all *.jpg-files to framstag@bofh.
FILES
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/var/spool/sendfile/$USER/log
A log of the last transfers.
/etc/sendfile.deny Users which are not allowed to receive files or messages (set by root).
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