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From: Rick Younie
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 05:05
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 05:05
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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. > Im having trouble accounting for Monday's are easy, I just subtract 3 > and get friday's date, but Im having trouble with the beginning of the > month being that all months don't have the same amount of days. any > help would be greatly appreciated. Now that I've actually read the question.. if it's monday date -d "3 days ago" +%d%m%y else date -d yesterday +%d%m%y Rick --
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From: Rick Younie <rick@vcn.bc.ca>
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Subject: Re: Need help with script
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