dow=`date '+%w'`


 
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Old 09-24-2008
dow=`date '+%w'`

what does this mean

dow=`date '+%w'`

not sure what the %w is here
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Old 09-24-2008
Have you read the man page of date? Smilie
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Old 09-24-2008
Yes i did and i could not find a %w option
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Old 09-24-2008
And what is the output of the command date '+%w' on your system?
It should give the day of the week, but if you get an error message, your date version doesn't support this option.

Regards
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Old 09-24-2008
yes its working fine now...thanks for ure reply..my script was missing a `

thanks anyways !!
 
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