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[Patrice Blanchard_2]

Hi,

what's the variable that keeps the day in HP-UX? Like crontab where 0 = sunday.

I'm running a script every day that updates data and send me an email but i only want to send an email if it's not during the weekend.

I know that i could modify the crontab but script is running other things that i need to run on weekends also.

I want to put a validation in the script to check the day and send the email if it's not sunday or saturday.

What's that variable?

Regards

PB

[Mridul Shrivastava]

Please refer the man pages of crontab for the same.

minute The minute of the hour, 0-59

hour The hour of the day, 0-23

monthday The day of the month, 1-31

month The month of the year, 1-12

weekday The day of the week, 0-6, 0=Sunday

[Enrico P. · Accepted solution]

Hi,
you can use the command:

DAY=`date "+%A"`

for set your day variable.

DAY=`date "+%A"`
echo $DAY
Monday


Enrico

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Patrice:

You can simply use:

# date '+%w'

This returns the day of the week beginning with one (1) for Monday and ending with seven (7) for Sunday.

See the manpages for 'date(1)'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

from 'man strftime' on SUN:

%u Weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday

%w Weekday as a decimal number [0,6], with 0 representing Sunday.

So you are closest to crontab in using 'date +%w'

mfG Peter

[Patrice Blanchard_2]

Thanks for all your help on this.

Regards

PB