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Name: gjoob
Date: November 17, 2003 at 08:24:35 Pacific
OS: Compaq Tru64
CPU/Ram: f
Comment:

I'm trying to rename a file from gjoob.txt to gjoob_monday.txt depending on the day of the week.
I can get the current day of the month by typing `date '+%d'` but is there anyway to calculate the weekday from the date?

All help greatly appreciated

Joobs



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Name: Jake
Date: November 17, 2003 at 09:18:28 Pacific
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Response Number 2
Name: Nails
Date: November 17, 2003 at 10:55:17 Pacific
Reply:

check out this:

http://computing.net/unix/wwwboard/forum/5035.html


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Response Number 3
Name: suraj31
Date: November 17, 2003 at 11:12:04 Pacific
Reply:

CUR_DAY=`date '+%a'`


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Response Number 4
Name: gjoob
Date: November 18, 2003 at 02:26:00 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks a lot, that =`date '+%a'` worked a treat.


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