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Hey Shawn,
Finally managed to write the perl script to calculate the difference in days.

use Time::Local;
use POSIX;

$mm="$ARGV[0]";
$dd="$ARGV[1]";
$yyyy="$ARGV[2]";

$fileDate =...

:)yippeee!!!
this worked - it gave me the following output :

The file is 0.603263888888889 days old.


so i guess this was testing against 03/12/2008 00:00:00 - so I can pass my date that i...

okay - bad news - no python on the system.
good news - there is perl on the system - so maybe we can write a perl script to do the same - right now I am sitting with a perl book in my hands...:eek:

Also, I checked the /usr/bin directory and this is what i got


retailtest:RMST90:/u01/app/rms9.0/prd/oracle/proc/bin>ls /usr/bin/en*
/usr/bin/enable /usr/bin/env

Thanks Shawn - but having problems with this too.
I created a new file, timeComparison.py using the vi editor, (actually just copied your code there) and then trid running the commant, and it gave...

Thanks Shawn
The unix version i am using is

SunOS retailtest 5.9 Generic_122300-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

tried getting help on the date command and the only 2 options available are...

Hi Shawn,
OK i tried this - and this is the error that I got -

date: illegal option -- d
usage: date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
date [-u] [+format]
date -a [-]sss[.fff]

Is...

Hi Jadu,
I did see your previous post yesterday and tried doing this - but I do not have GNU date and E1 just returns me today's date.
IS there any other way - the deadline for this is fast...

HI Shawn,
NO- the date is in the filename itself - SHIP_606400_2008233202_20080206_070308083544.xml - in this case "20080206".
Also, there is only 1 shipment per XML file for the date mentioned in...

Shawn,
Thanks for the quick response. This is what I am trying to do - these XML files are shipment files and these shipments need to be loaded into a database, dependent on some conditions.
This...

I am trying to find the difference in days between 2 dates.
I have to extract the 1st date from a filename, which i did using the awk command.
I have to compare this date to today's date and if...

thanks.. that worked :-)

Hi,
I am trying to get a substring from a String in a shell script and need some help.
I have a filename as
SHIP_606400_2008233202_20080306_070308083544.xml
The numbers after the 3rd "_" are the...