Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:02:41 -0600 From: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com> To: Bill Banks <office@ourweb.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: shell programming Message-ID: <7EA6F842-7C0D-4EFC-BF4D-DD83B0524597@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47349D10.20709@ourweb.net> References: <47349D10.20709@ourweb.net>
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On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: > I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into > a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using perl, it's quite complicated. In short, with sh, simply use the built-in date command: #!/bin/sh weekday=`date "+%A" See also man 3 strftime ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks
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