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Name: sunilmyneedi
Date: November 23, 2006 at 02:29:10 Pacific
OS: unix
CPU/Ram: none
Product: none
Comment:

how to get the day(mon,tue...)of 1st of the given month



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Response Number 1
Name: Devaraj (by Fidy)
Date: November 23, 2006 at 04:07:28 Pacific
Reply:

try this dude..

#!/bin/ksh

set -A month_arr Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
day=`cal $1 $2 |head -3 | tail -1 | awk '{print NF}'`
#echo $day
num=` expr 7 - $day`
#echo $num
print ${month_arr[$num]}


run the script as: scriptname month year
eg - script 03 2006

cheers,
Devaraj

Regards,
Devaraj Takhellambam


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Response Number 2
Name: nails
Date: November 23, 2006 at 13:15:19 Pacific
Reply:

Check out this link:

http://www.computing.net/unix/wwwbo...

It discusses how to find the day of week for a given date.


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Response Number 3
Name: sunilmyneedi
Date: November 23, 2006 at 22:43:51 Pacific
Reply:

thanks alot...



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