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Old 08-11-2007
How to check for Saturday or Sunday
Hi ,

I have a date parameter passed in YYYYMMDD format , how can I check whether it is Sat or Sun on Solaris box , as we can do the same easily on linux box by using date -d YYYYMMDD '+a' .

Any pointres will be really helpful .
# 2  
Old 08-11-2007
look at "man date" i think it was something like "date +%d"
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Old 08-11-2007
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Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
look at "man date" i think it was something like "date +%d"
I checked it disn't work out for me ...
also I am not able to convert YYYYMMDD format to dd-mon-yyformat .
# 4  
Old 08-11-2007
sorry, it was a or A:

root@miraculix # date +%a
Sat
root@miraculix # date +%A
Saturday
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Old 08-11-2007
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Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
sorry, it was a or A:

root@miraculix # date +%a
Sat
root@miraculix # date +%A
Saturday

I got it , it is working me fine for today's date ... but conversion is not happening on Solaris box ...as I am able to do it on LINUX box ...
( date -d 20070718 +'%a') will return me the output as u hv written ....
but on solaris , it is not happening .....
any pointer how to acheive this ??
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Old 08-11-2007
https://www.unix.com/search.php + keyword "datecalc"
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