get weekday based on date

gigagigosu · May 2, 2011, 2:44pm

Hi all,

i am looking for a method of determining the weekday when date is know (bash, if possible).
Let's say that i am looking to get the weekday for MAY 01 2011, how can i convert this into Sunday or SUN?
any suggestions?

joeyg · May 2, 2011, 2:52pm

$ date "+%A"
Monday

$ date "+%a"
Mon

Chirel · May 2, 2011, 2:54pm

Hi,

Just search this on the forum before asking

pravin27 · May 2, 2011, 2:54pm

GNU date

 date -d'MAY 01 2011' '+%A'

gigagigosu · May 3, 2011, 8:11am

thank you all, i'll take a look at that link.

date -d'MAY 01 2011' '+%A' appears to be an incorrect usage of date command... at least under macos 10.6