Mike Ballon wrote:
To those that don't know me Aloha,
Nice to meet you.
to those that do how come nobody told me about the new list :P
Well, if you were a member of the old list, it was posted there.
The scipt below works fine a Linux box but I need it work on my Solairs 2.7
box. Basically I just need a scipt that writes yesterday's date in the
format of yymmdd, thanks.
#!/bin/sh
# used to test date
TODAY=`date +%y%m%d`
echo $TODAY
echo "---"
#Get day ago
YESTERDAY=$(date --date "1 day ago" +%y%m%d)
echo $YESTERDAY
There are two things I see. $(...) is a bash construct I believe and
not part of
any traditional bourne shell implementations (it's not POSIX or otherwised
standardized I don't think), so you should use backticks like you did
for TODAY=...
on the line that starts YESTERDAY=... The other thing I see is --date
is a GNU
style option. Solaris uses BSD-based tools, by default, so --date won't
work. I just
checked the man page on uhunix2 and there doesn't appear to be any
comparable
option, so you should either install GNU's sh-utils, or write a small C
program to do
what you want. If you decide to go with writing the C program and you
need help,
just ask.
Another option would be perl (if you have it installed)...
--Ray Strode
