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Hi,

I have a requirement, to pass Fridays date to my job. Here im using ESP scheduler to run the job, but ESP can only pass the date on which it is running. It passes saturday date if it runs on sturday. I can schedule my job on friday so that it can pass firday date, but if for some reason job run on saturday or sunday my job will give unproper results. So could you guys plz help me in finding fridays date in Unix wrapper script itself.
Thanks in advance for all.

Regards
Suman

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

if [ "$(date +%u)" -eq 5 ]; then
   echo 'Must be Friday - skipping'
   exit 1
fi

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Thanks for quick reply.

what exactly it will give me...?
Let me make my question clear.
My job need to run on weekly basis on every friday.
If for some reason job runs on saturday or sunday or monday or anyday, then also i need previous friday date in the wrapper script. I would like to hold that date in a varibale (parameter). Please explain me how you above function would work for my requiremnt.

Regards
suman

What OS? Post the output of uname -a.

SunOS $servername 5.9 Generic_118558-39 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-15000

sorry, I misunderstood what you'd wanted.

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

if [ "$(date +%u)" -ne 5 ]; then
   echo 'Must be Friday - skipping'
   exit 1
fi

The above when put in a script will exit the script if the script gets run on any day other than Friday (the 5-th day of the week).
I believe this solves one part your question....

Ya.., that's right. But my requirement is not to skip the job if it is saturday or sunday.
My req is to to run the job with Fridays date, even it's running on saturday or sunday.