Re: date format in ksh

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:05:55 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003B5D8F.20011026100018@fatcity.com>

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

                                                                                       
                                     
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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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