when you say this is not helping what do you mean ?
You installed the package and it did not help?
Or
Thats not what I am looking for..
If second solution, you have to do the work as you have noticed yourself :
There are differences between the date command under linux and under solaris..
So show us in this particular case what you tried and give us the output so we can help
IF first option - Are you sure you have all? You should have the gnu date utility to be able to run the script the way its written here , if so are you sure its that one beeing used?
Post the output
Problem is the environment in which I'm working is provided by our client. So we cannot request for an additional install package. We have to rewrite this code in another way so that we can fit it into the Solaris environment. Please try and run my code in Linux environment with a the following format
You can decide whether to use cut or substrings to extract the components of the date. Do you always expect 01-MAY-2016, or is 1-MAY-2016 also valid?
There is no check to see if 29-FEB is valid, or whether 31-APR is valid.
Thanks a lot JGT. But fact is i need to compare two dates and return "correct" if start date is less than end date. I have written down the code and it runs well, fact is I need the code to run well in Solaris environment, where "date -d" is showing as an illegal format. I need modifications to some part of my code instead of breaking down the entire code so that Solaris doesn't throw such error
So change the following two lines in your script.
with
Where 'jgt_date' is the script that I posted. You may need to change the last line of my script to
and also change the exit for invalid month to exit 1.
When I tried you code, it failed with a syntax error due to the missing then on the last if statement.
After fixing that, I also thought it was strange that when the script was invoked with no operands, it responded with Success at last. (The inconsistent indentation in your code probably contributed to this oversight.)
And, there are a lot of calls to the external utilities expr and cut that can be handled much more efficiently and faster using shell built-ins available in bash, ksh93, and a few other shells (although some of them are extensions to the features required to appear in a POSIX-conforming shell).
Maybe something like the following would also work for you:
(Note that this uses /usr/bin/bash as it appeared in your code. On my system, there is a /bin/bash but not a /usr/bin/bash.)
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keep giving me this error :
date: invalid date ‘19-01-2017 00:05:01'
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