RE: date format in ksh

From: Suhen Pather <Suhen.Pather_at_strandbags.com.au>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:50:14 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003B646C.20011026164017@fatcity.com>

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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List,

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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