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Convert a date to a day..... 1
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Probably this works only with GNU [tt]date[/tt] :
Feherke.
Probably this works only with GNU [tt]date[/tt] :
Code:
[blue]master #[/blue] date -d '04/23/2009' +'%A'
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Yepp. The environment emulated by CygWin is an almost fully functional Linux. It's [tt]date[/tt] is the one from the GNU coreutils package.
Feherke.
Yepp. The environment emulated by CygWin is an almost fully functional Linux. It's [tt]date[/tt] is the one from the GNU coreutils package.
Feherke.
As Feherke has already pointed out the date -d option was not support in Solaris however if you check the man pages for date on the Solaris system there should be an option for capturing the day of the week in either 0-6 or 1-7 numeric format.
From there you would have to apply logic that would take the numeric and give you the string you wish so 6 or 7 would return Sunday depending on which option you went with.
HTH,
SteveR77
From there you would have to apply logic that would take the numeric and give you the string you wish so 6 or 7 would return Sunday depending on which option you went with.
HTH,
SteveR77
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