get day of the month

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Name: sunilmyneedi
Date: November 23, 2006 at 02:29:10 Pacific
Subject: get day of the month
OS: unix
CPU/Ram: none
Model/Manufacturer: 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: (edit)

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: (edit)

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

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thanks alot...

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