Re: Sightly OT: Unix scripting

I'll show you one way to do it, if you quit calling that a Julian date. :) ( YYDDD is not a Julian date )

$> echo $DATE

2079

$> DATE=$(echo $DATE | awk '{ print substr("0000"$1,length("0000"$1)-4)
}')

$> echo $DATE

02079

Jared

"Ball, Terry" <TBall_at_birch.com>
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Environment: Oracle 8.1.6.3 on Solaris 5.8

I am not a Unix Guru by any strech of the imagination, so I can use all the
help I can get. I am trying to write a shell script to execute sqlldr of a
file whose name includes yesterday's 2 digit year and julian day in the format: file_yyjjj.csv. I can get today's date fine by setting a variable to be DATE=`date '+%y%j'`

But when I try to get DATE -1 it strips the leading 0 (since it is currently
02). Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can retain the leading 0
and still get yesterday's date?

TIA, Terry

Terry Ball, DBA
Birch Telecom
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FAX: 816-300-1801

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