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Old 11-28-2012
Did you search our forums?
e.g.
Find Day of Week
Is only the latest... e.g
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...m-dd-date.html
there are quite a few more to look at not mentionning:
https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...rithmetic.html
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Old 11-29-2012
Hi corona, U r code is throwing bad substitution error.
Code:
"${DATE:6:2}": bad substitution

Last edited by baranisachin; 11-29-2012 at 04:23 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
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Old 11-29-2012
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Originally Posted by baranisachin
Hi corona, U r code is throwing bad substitution error.
Code:
"${DATE:6:2}": bad substitution

You need ksh93/bash for that...
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