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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:52:53 -0800
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From: "Sherman, Edward" <shermanej@eccic.com>
Subject: RE: OT ksh day of week yesterday
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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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