Date Question

[Vasudevan MV]

Hello all,

I have written a script to generate a report for the given start date and end date. In the script I need to check whether the start date is Monday or not. Is there any readymade function or commands in shell script?.

Thanks in advance

Vasu

[Corthouts Carlo]

hi,

Try with "date +%A".
This will return the full
weekday in characters.

[Patrick Wallek]

# date +%a
Thu

# date +%A
Thursday

In your script you could do:

day = `date +%a`

Then if day = Mon do whatever you need to do.

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

As usual my universal date hammer, caljd.sh, does this well. The -w option returns the day of the week, 0 - Sun; 6 - Sat.

For a given date:
DATE="3 4 2002" # March 4, 2002
WKDAY=$(caljd.sh -w ${DATE})

For today:
WKDAY=$(caljd.sh -w)

In either case,
if [ ${WKDAY} -eq 1 ]
then
echo "Monday Stuff"
else
echo "Not Monday Stuff"
fi

You can do a caljd.sh -u for full usage. P.S. It even knows about holidays.


Regards, Clay

[Vasudevan MV]

Hi,

Thanks everyone for ur suggestions. I wanted to assign points but the option was disabled. I don't know how to assign the points now.

Clay

Your code is working fine and thats what I need.

Vasu

[Vasudevan MV]

Hey I have assigned points now.

Vasu