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This is a discussion on Shell Script within the Unix/Linux forums, part of the Operating Systems category; how'ld u write a shell script that would check if a date entered in yyyy mm dd format is a saturday. i kno how to write it in mm ...

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#1 (permalink)   05-24-2007

henri084 Junior Member   Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 13 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

Shell Script how'ld u write a shell script that would check if a date entered in yyyy mm dd format is a saturday. i kno how to write it in mm dd yy format Last edited by henri084 : 06-18-2007 at 12:07 PM.

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#2 (permalink)   05-31-2007

uniqueshekhar Junior Member   Join Date: May 2007 Location: India Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

Re: Shell Script echo "Enter Date :" read ate date --date=$ate > /tmp/date aday=`cut -c 1-3 /tmp/date` if [ $aday = 'Sat' ] ; then echo "Saturday at $ate " else echo "Not saturday at $ate as $aday" fi Regards, Shekhar

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