Jared,
Thanks for the reply.
I am passing a hardcoded date.
I am not getting a date from the
"date" command in ksh.
What my ksh does is retrieves $1 and must check if the date format
is in DD-MON-YY eg. 02-FEB-01.
It uses the hardcoded date (passed in as argument 1) in the script.
If the date is in another format other than above then it must exit.
Regards
Suhen
date +%d-%b-%Y
man date.
You may have to look at the man page on a system with more
recent documentation, such as linux. The man page on
Solaris is incomplete.
JARed
Suhen Pather
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Sorry to deviate from the topic, but
I am writing a korn shell script that would exit if the date format is
incorrect.
I just need something to compare the date format passed in with
DD-MON-YYYY.
Eg.
I am passing an argument to my ksh script being the date.
If the date is in any other format but DD-MON-YYYY the ksh must exit.
Eg. sh test.ksh 02/05/1999
It must exit.
The only format excepted should be
sh test.ksh 02-MON-YYYY
TIA
Regards
Suhen
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