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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a homework assignment:
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"Display" the number of days in the current month. For example:
September 1996 has 30 days
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I am trying to just display the head of cal to start the sentence.
eg. cal | head
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Discussion started by: eaafuddy
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to figure out how to assign columns of a text file to the day of the month. The end result will be a way to determine when each day (column) is populated with data.
The data file are in the format of:
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
#!/bin/ksh
day=1
month=1
year=2012
if then
then
prevmonth=31
elif
then
prevmonth=30
elif
then
then prevmonth=29
elif
then prevmonth=29
else
prevmonth=28
fi (4 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi all
searched google and here, cant find and am begining to suspect there is no options for this.
shell = born
with either the date or cal command I need to display the number of days in current month. can anyone point me in the right direction? (10 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have an issue in date processing, the issue is I have a month as an int ( 1 - 12 ), the weekday as int ( 0 - 6 , 0 = Sunday), and the week day in month as int ( 0 - 5, 5 = last ex: first sunday, last monday, third tuesday ... ), now from those three parameters is there a possible way to... (5 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all. I am scripting in a POSIX shell on HPUX.
I am running a script that needs to determine the number of days in a month.
I found this on the forum and it works great:
X=`cal $(date +%m) $(date +%Y) | grep -v '' | wc -w`
The issue is that I am running the script on the 7th day of... (11 Replies)
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am writing a script that requires the number of days in any given month.
In the shell, I can use the command:
cal `date +%m` `date +%Y`| grep -v '' | wc -w
to give me the number of days in the month, but when I assign it to a variable:
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hiii i have a file with data as shown below:
a.dat:
RAO 1900 2 7 0 0 0.00 10.8000 76.8000 10.0 0 0.00 0 6.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.00 6.00 0 NULL
LEE 1901 2 15 0 0 0.00 26.0000 100.0000 0.0 0 0.00 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 6.00 6.00 0 NULL
RAO 1901 4... (3 Replies)
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9. Shell Programming and Scripting
does any one have any ideas how i would go about calculating the number of days left in the month from a bash script ?. I want to do some operations on a csv file according to the result (8 Replies)
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10. Shell Programming and Scripting
Looking for some help on capturing the number of days in a month to set as a loop counter. Any ideas, please let me know. (3 Replies)
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