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Old 03-05-2010
Find out the day in Bash Shell script
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
# 2  
Old 03-05-2010
Code:
date '+%A'

(man date)
# 3  
Old 03-05-2010
Code:
date -d 20100227 +%A

# 4  
Old 03-05-2010
Thanks for your response.....

I have executed ur script its working fine.
I am new to shell scipt.
If the particular day(20100227) is saturday then how to add to 2 days.
I need to get (20100301) monday.
# 5  
Old 03-05-2010
Code:
DTE="20100227"
if [ $(date -d $DTE +%w) = 6 ]
then NEWDTE=$(date -d "$DTE + 2 days" +%Y%m%d)
fi

# 6  
Old 03-05-2010
Thank you so much frans........It helped a lot
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