Write a shell script to find whether the first day of the month is a working day

phani · March 17, 2005, 6:41am

Hi ,
I am relatively new to unix...
Can u pls help me out to find out if the first day of the month is a working day ie from (Monday to Friday)...using Date and If clause in Korn shell..

This is very urgent.
Thanks for ur help...

esham · March 17, 2005, 6:59am

Hello,

   Do you want to get the output of the current month or any month that you give..

Please make the needed thing clear..

Thanks
esham

phani · March 17, 2005, 7:58am

Hi Esham,
The script runs every day.....
So it should be for any month.....

Thanks ...

Perderabo · March 17, 2005, 8:38am

Look at "Yesterdays Date/Date Arithmetic" in our FAQ section.

ZealeS · March 17, 2005, 11:36am

man cal
or
man date

Ygor · March 17, 2005, 8:44pm

Using case...

case $(date "+%a%d") in
    Mon01|Tue01|Wed01|Thu01|Fri01) echo true ;;
    *) echo false ;;
esac

esham · March 18, 2005, 12:42am

thats a good solution...

and its simple also...

esham :)

phani · March 18, 2005, 12:59am

excellent thats very quick..

thnks esham ...and Ygor...