Getting Day of Month 2

[Michael42]

Hey all,

On Solaris 8 I have been getting the day of the month using the below:

DAY=`date | cut -d  ' ' -f3`

This works with days with two digits but does not seem to work with days with only one digit (like today 11/1/05).

What can you recommend?

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[PHV]

Either :
DAY=`date +%d`
Or:
DAY=`date +%e`

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[mi294r3]

Try
KSH
DAY=$(date +%d)

sh
DAY=`date +%d`

JRjr

 

[Michael42]

Perfect!

I really prefer the way you guys were deriving the date, i.e. using the date command option rather than using cut.

Thanks,

Michael42