shell script for printing last 7 days 1

[AQWQ]

Hi all,

Can any please hel me in getting the shell script for displaying the last 7 days from the current date..ie., ie., if we give date at the unix prompt i shall gat the current date..what to do if i need yesterdays date with the date command???

Thanx in advance Santhosh Ravindran

 

[CaKiwi]

Check the suggestion by cfsalmeida in thread80-111546 and in thread80-105565 He uses

env TZ="$TZ+24" date +%m%d%y

to go back 1 day and

x=7; env TZ="$TZ+`expr $x \* 24`" date +%m%d%y

to go back 7 days

CaKiwi

 

[AQWQ]

Thanx CaKiwi it worked...Can u help me in adding a job to cron??I have a small shell script to generate reports.when i tried to add the shell script to cron using the command
crontab <filename>

it gives some error.i tried adding a line to crontab using the option &quot;crontab -e&quot; but that option too doesn't work cos the line is not getting added in to the users crontab file.So someone please help me out...

Thanx in advance Santhosh Ravindran

 

[KenCunningham]

Can you su - to the user in question and add the line to their crontab that way? Make sure that the user is listed in any cron.allow file that may exist, and is not listed in any cron.deny file. HTH.

 

[patel]

Hi AQWQ,
Say you want to run cron job as user aqwq then
1. log in as root
2. add entry aqwq in /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow (for HP) if you have other flavor type man corntab and look for file cron.allow's location

3. login as aqwq
4. crontab -e (set your environment if you are using emacs as your default editor)

5. check that cron daemon is running or not.(ps -ef |grep cron)

Patel