RE: OT ksh day of week yesterday

same thing. time offset. This may not work on all systems because of how TZ is used.

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Sherman, Edward wrote:

> My TZ is EST5EDT and I think the 5 implies GMT-05:00
> What does the 26 in EST26EDT imply?
>
> Just curious.
> Ed
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> yesterday=$(TZ=EST26EDT date +%a)
>
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Barbara Baker wrote:
>
> >
> > Will someone take pity on this poor VMS'er lost in a unix world??
> >
> > I'm trying to create a script (ksh) that reads a log file created
> > yesterday. The log files are created with `date +%a` appended to the
> > end of the log file name. Last night a log file was created called
> > arc_indexlog.Tue It's easy enough to get today
> >
> > TDAY="`date +%a`"
> > grep -i "ora" /orasrv/ops/maint/logs/arc_indexlog.$TDAY
> > grep -i "ora" /orasrv/ops/maint/logs/adv_indexlog.$TDAY
> >
> > but how do I get yesterday in the same format? (i.e., Tue instead of Wed)
> I man'd date, but it was no help.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Barb
> >
> >
> >
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