On Friday 09 November 2007 20:02, Eric Crist wrote: > 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.
Not really: use POSIX 'strftime'; my $day_of_week = strftime '%A', localtime; POSIX has always been a core module. To see this in action from a commandline, perl -MPOSIX=strftime -le 'print strftime q/%A/, localtime' Jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
