Date Incremental in AIX


 
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Old 11-12-2013
Date Incremental in AIX

Hi,
I am trying to find an option in unix to increment for date filed.
I tried in the unix forums. unable to find the direct command to increment the value.

code
Code:
a= 01/Apr/13

while [ $a -lt 5 ]
do
   echo $a
   a=`expr $a + 1`
done

example
Input:
Code:
a= 01/Apr/13

Output:
Code:
 01/Apr/13
 02/Apr/13
 03/Apr/13
 04/Apr/13
 05/Apr/13

Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Last edited by Scott; 11-12-2013 at 08:21 PM.. Reason: Code tags for data too, please...
# 2  
Old 11-12-2013
Try

Code:
#/bin/bash

a=01/Apr/13
a=${a//\//-}
n=$(echo "${a:0:2}-1" | bc) 

# OR n=0 also will work

while [ $n -lt 5 ]; do
     date -d "$a + $n day" +%d/%b/%y
n=$((n+1))
done

Code:
$ bash test.sh
01/Apr/13
02/Apr/13
03/Apr/13
04/Apr/13
05/Apr/13


Last edited by Akshay Hegde; 11-12-2013 at 04:52 PM.. Reason: color
# 3  
Old 11-12-2013
Thanks for the quick response but it is giving as an error
Code:
a=${a//\//-}: bad substitution


Last edited by Scott; 11-12-2013 at 08:19 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 4  
Old 11-12-2013
Don't know about your bash

replace a=${a//\//-} by a=$(echo "$a" | sed 's/\//-/g') and then try let me know about result
# 5  
Old 11-12-2013
now that statement not giving an error but giving different error.
Code:
"${a:0:2}-1": bad substitution


Last edited by Scott; 11-12-2013 at 08:21 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 6  
Old 11-12-2013
which bash run this
Code:
bash --version | head -1

if you have ksh93 try with ksh
# 7  
Old 11-12-2013
GNU bash, version 4.1.9(1)
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