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Old 04-26-2011
shell scripting - gives a message on Fridays and a countdown on other business days.
Hey - I need to write a shell script that gives a message on Fridays and a countdown on other business days. ("Today is Thursday, one day to go to Friday") I don't know if I should be scheduling a job for friday using the crontab command? Basically i'm totally lost. Any help would be greatly appreciated..... Thanks, citizencro.......
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Old 04-26-2011
Gives a message in response to what, and puts it where?
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Old 04-26-2011
I need it to say "today is friday, tgif" on friday, then on sat, sun, mon etc, I need it to display sat - 6 days left, sun 5 days left, mon 4 days left, etc...... Thanks for the response...
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Old 04-26-2011
Yes, but display it when? On login? At midnight? When a command is run?

And where? in the motd? On every logged-in shell? On a webpage banner?
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Old 04-26-2011
on login, in the message of the day..... Although the question was not specific, just asked for a shell script displaying the above.
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Old 04-26-2011
Code:
case $(date +%w) in
5)     # Friday
        echo stuff
        ;;
*)
        echo something else
        ;;
esac

You might be able to put this in /etc/profile, though you'll need to be careful to do so only for login shells...
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Old 04-27-2011
MySQL Thank you very much!!!
This worked and was very helpful and appreciated... Thanks, citizencro
 
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