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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:39:12 -0800
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From: "Koivu, Lisa" <lisa.koivu@efairfield.com>
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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@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
> Work: 816-300-1335
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