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# 1  
Old 03-15-2012
Need script logic
Hi,

i have a file which contains names of persons and date as below.

HTML Code:
peter 27-mar
Vicky  08-sep
Saryu 03-jan
venki  14-dec
.....
...
can someone plz provide a script logic, which returns the Name of the person whose date is matching with current date.
# 2  
Old 03-15-2012
Code:
$ today=$(date +%d-%a|tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")
$ echo $today
15-thu
$ grep "$today" input.txt

# 3  
Old 03-15-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by itkamaraj
Code:
$ today=$(date +%d-%a|tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")
$ echo $today
15-thu
$ grep "$today" input.txt

Close, but %a gives the weekday not the month, you probably meant %b, and the translate can be avoided if you use ignore case option on grep:

Code:
grep -i "$( date +%d-%b )" input.txt

Last edited by agama; 03-15-2012 at 12:29 AM.. Reason: rewording
# 4  
Old 03-15-2012
oops.... i didnt notice properly Smilie
# 5  
Old 03-15-2012
Thank you all for the reply.

I tried the script and it returns the whole row. Is it possible to get Name alone ?
# 6  
Old 03-15-2012
Code:
 
today=$(date +%d-%b)
awk -v d="$today" '$0~tolower(d){print $1}' input.txt

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