Re: OT ksh day of week yesterday

Barbara Baker wrote:
>
> Will someone take pity on this poor VMS'er lost in a unix world??
>
> I'm trying to create a script (ksh) that reads a log file created
> yesterday. The log files are created with `date +%a` appended to the
> end of the log file name. Last night a log file was created called
> arc_indexlog.Tue It's easy enough to get today
>
> TDAY="`date +%a`"
> grep -i "ora" /orasrv/ops/maint/logs/arc_indexlog.$TDAY
> grep -i "ora" /orasrv/ops/maint/logs/adv_indexlog.$TDAY
>
> but how do I get yesterday in the same format? (i.e., Tue instead of
> Wed) I man'd date, but it was no help.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Barb

One of my nightmares. If you have only one file a day, I'd rather do it with 'find', the suitable pattern for the filename and something like -ctime.
Another way to do it is to get the date from Oracle ...

HTH,   Stephane Faroult
Oriole Software

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