topic Re: Script with Date Calc in Operating System - HP-UX

Script with Date Calc

UniRock — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:32:50 GMT

Hi All,

I am trying to make a script that would create some data for the next five days of the week in five different folders with names of the DAYS.
The script has to be run once a week, say Monday.

The problem is how shall I increment the date parameter to get next five DAY?

Thanks,
UniRock

Re: Script with Date Calc

Anoop P_2 — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:18:17 GMT

Use caljd.sh

http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/caljd-2.25.sh

You'll need to learn to use it.

Credits for that script to A. Clay Stephenson.

Re: Script with Date Calc

kemo — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:35:04 GMT

hi

i will give you one example

i want to create every day one file with name "file.date" for example today is 21-05-09 so the file will be file.210509 next day will be file.220509 and so on

just do

touch /tmp/file.`date +%d%m%y`

thanks
kamal

Re: Script with Date Calc

Suraj K Sankari — Thu, 21 May 2009 10:03:00 GMT

Hi,

Its easy to take today's date and make a directiory,
you can increment the day also by adding 1 into current date.

problem is comming when month is ending.

Suraj

Re: Script with Date Calc

UniRock — Fri, 22 May 2009 01:41:44 GMT

Hi All,

Actually I want to increment the day and not the date everytime, Monday, Tuesday and so on.

Thanks,
UniRock.

Re: Script with Date Calc

Hein van den Heuvel — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:43:29 GMT

Can you give us an example of what 'creating some data' might look like?

Any preferred implementation language?

If it is always run on Monday, and only the weekday is a variable, then you don't really need to know the actual date right?

Just pick them from a list... using perl:

$ perl -e '@days=qw(Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri); for (@days) { qx(cp x.dat $_)}'
'

Or, instead of coding up the list, look for the directories:

perl -e 'for (<*day>) { next unless -d; s/\..*$//; qx(cp x.dat $_) }'

Hope this helps some,
Hein.

Re: Script with Date Calc

UniRock — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:23:45 GMT

Thanks all of you..