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# 8  
Old 09-01-2016
But most versions of Solaris 10 should, unless they were specifically removed.
# 9  
Old 09-02-2016
I believe that installing some GNU utilities with leading g on the utility names is an installation option on Solaris 10 systems. When I was using Solaris 10 systems, most of the systems at my location were installed without that option.

Except for the month in which the cal utility thinks the calendar switched from Julian dates to Gregorian dates (September 1752 in Great Britain and her colonies at that time), I think the following will do what you want on Solaris 10 systems when using bash, ksh, or /usr/xpg4/bin/sh as your shell for calendar years 1 through 9999:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#weekday=("sunday" "monday" "tuesday" "wednesday" "thursday" "friday" "saturday")
for ymd in "$@"
do	year=${ymd%[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]}
	month=${ymd#$year}
	month=${month%[0-9][0-9]}
	day=${ymd#$year$month}
	sday=${day#0}
	# printf 'Day:%s, Month:%s, Year:%s\n' "$day" "$month" "$year"
	printf '%s-->' "$ymd"
	if [ "${day#[0-9][0-9]}" != "" ] || [ $day = "00" ] || [ $sday -gt 31 ]
	then	echo 'invalid day'
		continue
	fi
	cal "$month" "$year" 2>/dev/null | {
		read
		read
		read line
		set -- $line
		if [ $# -eq 0 ]
		then	echo invalid
			continue
		fi
		dow=$(( (sday + 6 - $#) % 7 ))
		if [ $sday -gt 28 ]
		then	weeks=$(( (sday - $#) / 7 ))
			while [ $weeks -ge 0 ]
			do	read line
				weeks=$((weeks - 1))
			done
			set -- $line
			if [ $dow -ge $# ]
			then	echo 'invalid -- too many days for that month'
				continue
			fi
		fi
		case $dow in
		(0)	echo sunday;;
		(1)	echo monday;;
		(2)	echo tuesday;;
		(3)	echo wednesday;;
		(4)	echo thursday;;
		(5)	echo friday;;
		(6)	echo saturday;;
		esac
		#echo ${weekday[$dow]}
	}
done

If you invoke this script with the command:
Code:
./scriptname 20120712 20150228 20150229 20160228 20160229 20140431 19501206 \
    19660501 20160901 x10101 17760704 99991231 10101 20160500 20160832

where scriptname is the name of your script, it produces the output:
Code:
20120712-->thursday
20150228-->saturday
20150229-->invalid -- too many days for that month
20160228-->sunday
20160229-->monday
20140431-->invalid -- too many days for that month
19501206-->wednesday
19660501-->sunday
20160901-->thursday
x10101-->invalid
17760704-->thursday
99991231-->friday
10101-->saturday
20160500-->invalid day
20160832-->invalid day

If your shell supports indexed arrays (which I think bash and ksh on Solaris 10 do, but I don't have access to them for testing), you could uncomment the lines in red and comment out the case statement shown in bold text and get the same results.

If you need to process dates in the month when the calendar changed from Julian dates to Gregorian dates, I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to fix the code for this corner case. Note that the output of cal 9 1752 on my system in the C Locale is:
Code:
   September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
       1  2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

# 10  
Old 09-02-2016
date conversion
Hi,

Code:
bash-3.2$  gdate +%A -d 20150616
bash: gdate: command not found
bash-3.2$ which gdate
no gdate in /usr/bin /bin
bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS pfdbfd01 5.10 Generic_150400-34 sun4v sparc sun4v
bash-3.2$ date -d "20150616" +"%Y%m%d"
date: illegal option -- d
usage:  date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
        date [-u] [+format]
        date -a [-]sss[.fff]

I am getting above error ...

Thanks,
Srinadh


Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Use code tags, thanks.
Last edited by zaxxon; 09-02-2016 at 03:31 AM..
# 11  
Old 09-02-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by srinadhreddy27
Hi,

Code:
bash-3.2$  gdate +%A -d 20150616
bash: gdate: command not found
bash-3.2$ which gdate
no gdate in /usr/bin /bin
bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS pfdbfd01 5.10 Generic_150400-34 sun4v sparc sun4v
bash-3.2$ date -d "20150616" +"%Y%m%d"
date: illegal option -- d
usage:  date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
        date [-u] [+format]
        date -a [-]sss[.fff]


I am getting above error ...

Thanks,
Srinadh

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Use code tags, thanks.
Hi Srinadh,
Try:
Code:
/usr/[gG][nN][uU]/bin/date -d 20150616 "+%A"

If that doesn't work either, I still think the code I suggested in post #9 in this thread should work for you. Have you tried the code I suggested there?
Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-02-2016 at 03:40 AM.. Reason: Fix typo: s/"+%B"/"+%A"/
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