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1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi Experts,
I have a date validation script in that i will validate the date for a given format and search in the logs for that date. The script logic is very simple like below.
Validate_Date()
{
is_valid=1
while
do
date_format=$(date "+$1")
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
in my script, i take the last month by
a=$(date --date '1 month ago' +%Y%m)
i expect that it give me in this month "March" as result 201402,
but linux gave me 201403.
IMPe@ABC123:> ~/date --date '1 month ago' +%Y%m
201403
i'm reasonably confused. Any idea?
Thanks in advance,
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
Good Morning,
I am working on a pyhton script, where it has to fetch a file from our vendor's server over an ftp.
The file is having a date format of "MMDDYYYY" (i have included in my python script), but when the script is executed it is unable to fetch the file.
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Dear all, today I'm scratching my head with a simple (I believe) issue.
Working with date is quite simple, so if I Need to add some seconds to current time, I'll use:
date --date='+30 seconds' +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"But, how to pass the value to add from a variable? I tried the following without... (2 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Help. My script is working fine when executed manually but the cron seems not to catch up the command when registered.
The script is as follow:
#!/bin/sh
for file in file_1.txt file_2.txt file_3.txt
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I am facing a very strange problem when I run my script manuallu ./Fetchcode which is using to connect with MKS integrity from linux end it workks fine but when I run it from cron it doesn't work.Can someone help me
1) How could I check my script when it is running from cron like... (3 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi
#!usr/bin/perl -w
local ($date) = `/sbin/date "+%D %X" ` ;
print $date
when i run this in ksh shell it is giving the below error
sh: /sbin/date: not found
but same code is working and displaying date and time in sh shell.
what could be the reason.
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all,
I'm trying to substract 1 minute from the current date and take the hour and minute (for filename purpose).
1) If I want hour an minute from current time I can use:
timetmp=$(date +"%H:%M")
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello,
I could not find the exactly same post here.. so I will explain what I did to get the last month using date command.
I used
date +%Y-%m -d "-1 months"
to get the last month. However, the returned value of above command on 2009/10/31 was 2009 10 and not 2009 09.. and the... (9 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
I wan to convert any field having date in the file from the follwoing format 5/1/2003 to 2003-05-01. This file is tab delimited. Please help. (2 Replies)
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