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Old 08-09-2005
[kornshell] Getting the next weekday date
Hi All

can anyone help me with this, Im new to kornshell scripting and is trying to get the next weekday to a variable:

strDate=%date '+%Y%m%d' // YYYYMMDD

strNewDate= Smilie

// assuming that current date is 20050812 (friday) then strNewDate will get 20050815 (monday) or if current date if 20050811 (thursday) then strNewDate will get 20050812 (friday)

I know I could get the day separately and then add 1, but I would also need to verify the number of days in the month so as not to exceed the months number of days; and verify if this would be a weekday; which would require a pretty long function

Thanks
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Old 08-10-2005
First, I suggest you look at Perderabo's datecalc - it will probably be very useful to you.

Second, as far as working on which day it is and which day is next, suggest you look at date +%w which will give you the number of the day in the week (0=Sunday, 1=Monday,...) and you can easily figure out which day you need to go to next. This along with calling datecalc should solve all your issues.
 
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