RE: Sightly OT: Unix scripting

Terry,

I don't see a format like that in the unix date command formats, unfortunately. You may have to test the value and pad the number yourself. I have to do that in a number of my perl scripts.

You are lucky you have Unix...

Lisa Koivu
Oracle Database Monkey.
Fairfield Resorts, Inc.
954-935-4117

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ball, Terry [SMTP:TBall_at_birch.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:08 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Sightly OT: Unix scripting
>
> 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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