Date Command

[abovebrd]

If I use the following command : date +%j
it gives me the date output in "day of the year format" 004

date +%j (returns) 004 (If the date is 01/04/01_

Does any one a way to have the date command interpet a number and give the date

004 = 01/04/01
005 = 01/05/01
006 = 01/06/01 and so on



-Danny

 

[d3funct]

"date +%j" actually gives you the julian date
and "date +%m/%d/%y" will return 01/05/01.
Now I wrote a quick script that does what you want, the syntax is kinda strange but it does get the result you were looking for.

#!/bin/ksh
JULIAN=`date +%j`
USUAL=`date +%m/%d/%y`
if [ $JULIAN != $USUAL ]; then
echo "$JULIAN = $USUAL"
else
echo "what's the date?"
fi
exit 0

hope it helps
d3funct
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[jad]

wow, serious deja-vu ... i reckon i've seen this 3 times now ... i won't post the same answer