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From: Rick Younie
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:42
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 17:42
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tom <moodade@optonline.net> wrote: > I'm trying to write a script that will return the last business day's > date in mmddyy format. > Does anybody know of an easy way to do this. GNU date will do this for you. Some variation on date -d yesterday +%d/%b/%Y should work. The man page describes the format strings. Rick --
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