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Old 05-02-2011
get weekday based on date
Hi all,

i am looking for a method of determining the weekday when date is know (bash, if possible).
Let's say that i am looking to get the weekday for MAY 01 2011, how can i convert this into Sunday or SUN?
any suggestions?
# 2  
Old 05-02-2011
Is this what you are looking for?
Code:
$ date "+%A"
Monday

$ date "+%a"
Mon

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Old 05-02-2011
Hi,

Just search this on the forum before asking Smilie
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Old 05-02-2011
GNU date
Code:
 date -d'MAY 01 2011' '+%A'

# 5  
Old 05-03-2011
thank you all, i'll take a look at that link.

date -d'MAY 01 2011' '+%A' appears to be an incorrect usage of date command... at least under macos 10.6
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