Sometimes at the end of a long day, I can find STRANGE ways to solve otherwise simple questions. However, the following is an interesting approach.
The key is that you said you would cron (start) the task on the 1st of every month. Thus, I only need to find out yesterday.
Create a temp file, and determine the number of seconds since Epoch
Back off a day = 60 sec X 60 min X 24 hours
Find its time since Epoch
Find out the month for yesterday
And, to prove it out, since today is the 5th, I will back up 5 days
(voila, January!)
I am not able to fetch first date and last date previous month
date -d -1month +%Y-%m-%d
date -d -1month +%Y-%m-%d
I need two format dd-mm-yyy
previous month 01-03-2016
previous month 31-03-2016
and also only date 1 to 31
Aprriciate your replay (4 Replies)
I have requirment to get last date of previous month and the first date of previous 4th month:
Example:
Current date: 20130320 (yyyymmdd)
Last date of previous month: 20130228 (yyyymmdd)
First date of previous 4th month: 20121101 (yyyymmdd)
In my shell --date, -d, -v switches are not... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am using the below code to get the year and month from date:
Below gives output like 201212.
dt=`date '+%Y%m'`
how do i get the previous month value(ie: subtract 1 from date)
example output:
dt=201211
Please help. :confused: (3 Replies)
Hi,
On any given day, I want to capture the month that has gone by - said otherwise, how do I capture last month?
expr date '+%m' - 1
Above expression is giving error.
Please advise
thanks
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Hi All,
I need to run a job every month at the beginning of the month which is scheduled through autosys, lets say on 03/01/2010. I need to pass the last month's i.e February's first_date = 02/01/2010 and last_date = 02/28/2010 as variables to a stored procedure. Can somebody please pass... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I wanted to display the month for previous day date. Like, today date is 18-Nov-2008. So the previous date is 17-Nov-2008. The output should be November.
If the today date is 1-DEC-2008, then output should be NOVEMBER.
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Hi, I'm new with Unix, I'm trying to get a last day of previous month with this format: %b %d %Y (example: Feb 25 2008).
Here is what I have so far.
#!/bin/ksh
cur_month=`date +%m`
cur_year=`date +%Y`
prev_month=$(($cur_month-1))
# Check to see if this is January
if
then
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Hi,
My task to to delete files which are of previous months.
I have files named as follows *CCYYMMDD.xls. on a particular day i have delete previous months files
i.e in Dec i have delete all nov files which look like 200511DD.XLS
in Jan i have to delete all Dec files 200512DD.xls
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This has probably been asked 100 times, but I couldn't find any articles on point. I have a script that runs on the last day of every month at 11:30pm. If cats a number of input tables that were created the previous month (or earlier), combines them into one master file and erases the indivual... (1 Reply)