date format..

[friend_1]

Hi,
how to retrieve date format like this(Tue Apr 7)

Thanks,

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

See the output

[suraj@rspc521 root]# date +%a" "%b" "%d
Tue Apr 07

where
%d day of month (01..31)
%a localeâs abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
%b localeâs abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
for more information see the man page of date

Suraj

[Taifur]

Hi Friend,

For date format, you can check below link


http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51_HTML/MAN/MAN1/0083____.HTM


Rgds//
Taifur

[Steven Schweda]

> For date format, you can check below link

Why would an HP-UX user wish to use a Tru64
"man" page for info like this? (And if he
_did_ want a Tru64 "man" page, why would he
want an old, obsolete one rather than the
latest one?)

[Ganesan R]

Hi Friend,

#date +%a" "%b" "%e
Tue Apr 7

[Dennis Handly]

>Taifur: For date format, you can check below link

That was a Tru64 man page, accept no substitutes:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60130/date.1.html

[Frank de Vries]

To stick it in a variable do

VAR=$(date +%a" "%b" "%e)
print $VAR
Tue Apr 7

Cheerio friend

[friend_1]

hi,

sdate=`date +%a" "%b" "%e`

awk '/'$sdate'/ {x++} /ORA-/ && x' alert.txt
syntax error The source line is 1.
The error context is
>>> /Wed <<<
awk: Quitting
The source line is 1.

thanks,

[Patrick Wallek]

So, what are you trying to accomplish with the awk statement? What results do you expect?

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>awk '/'$sdate'/ {x++} /ORA-/ && x' alert.txt

If you want to find lines with the date then start printing lines with "ORA-", you could do:
awk -vvar="$sdate" '$0 ~ var {x++} /ORA-/ && x'

You can't stutter quotes if $sdata has white space. You must quote $sdata if you want to echo it, since it has multiple spaces.
Since you are using a variable and not a constant RE, you must use the ~ operator.