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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hello All,
Greetings all !!
I have a query here, following are the points on same(Adding today's is 31st August 2016 for future reference).
1st Scenario: So while doing some work on GNU date, I wanted to check what was the month(in numbers) by GNU date so I have done following.
date... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: RavinderSingh13
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2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Whats the difference between using date in these 2 methods? How exactly does the shell handle the first one different from the second one?
$ echo $date
$ echo $(date)
Tue Aug 16 03:10:25 EDT 2011 (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a string that looks like this:
2008 04 09 18 45 30 0
I would like to convert it to a date format like this:
Wed Apr 09 18:45:30.000 GMT 2008
I have been searching all over and can't find anything to help me. I am using ksh on a sun solaris unix machine. Thank you.
Allyson (2 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
How could I get a date's day of the week (ie Sunday) without using the date -d command?
So if a date was specified, it would give me the day of the week.
The date -d command looks something like this
date -d $inputdate | cut -c 1-3
the only problem with that statement is that it won't... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: DKNUCKLES
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to append a portion of a file with a date on it that changes daily to a temp file. Here are my commands:
set DATE = ('date +%Y%m%d_sum.log')
cat $HOME/right/$DATE > /export/home/temp.txt
Here is the error I keep receiving:
cat: cannot open /temp/usr/nedaniel/right/date... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: BigDawg32
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
hi guys, i've got a simple one..
date_time="`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`" gives me the system's date and time...
which my script will use this variable to run the data on this date...
my question is... if now, i want to run the script for data's that are like 6 months back...
how can i... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: 12yearold
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7. AIX
I am creating a shell script and have a question about how to determine yesterdays date. In my script, I can determine today by:
today=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
but I am not sure how to determine yesterday. In other languages, I would just subtract one from today, but I don't know how to do that... (1 Reply)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
I have a little bash shell script which is used to backup files (via cron) to an NASLite server every 7 days.
a=$(date +%b_%d_%Y)
tar -lcpf /tmp/laptopbackup.$a.tar /home
ncftpput 192.168.0.5 /Disk-1/laptop /tmp/laptopbackup.$a.tar
The filename thus includes the date on which it is made,... (3 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hi guys!
just want to ask if you could help me with the sript i'm working on. i need to automatically generate a summarized report everyday for all transactions the day before and ftp it to another machine. my only problem is that i need to name the file as the date yesterday. for example if i... (12 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
hi,
how do i get the last day of the current date or a given date using unix.
for e.g. if i run the command/script on 1st feb 2002 i should get 28 th feb 2002.
thanks !!
AnkuR. (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ankurgupta
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