RE: Last day of the month unix

Well, you can do date functions in Unix. The date function is date. It's not normal, because Unix Commands are supposed to be cryptic.

But, you could do the following. You'll want to test it because no to Unii are the same...

cal|tail -2|head -1|awk '{print $NF}' (last day of current month) cal 2 2001|tail -2|head -1|awk '{print $NF}' (last day of February 2001)

HTH,
Bambi.

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• Sinard Xing <sinardyxing_at_bcs-ach.com.sg>

> Hi,
>
> Is there any function that can display out "last day of the month" for
> example
> lastday(Oct,2001) return me 31
> Or a variable that store this value.
>
> Is Date an object in unix ?

Check the Date::Manip package. The simplest way is to check for

    UnixDate( 'tommorrow', '%d') == 1 ? 'last day of month', 'not last day';

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