From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Wed Feb 2 21:38:58 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j133cw7t026979 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:38:58 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j133cwem026975 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:38:58 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 5DF176CA37; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:38:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 27324-06; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:38:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id D600B6CBF9; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:38:01 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=kVFv2pQ3YEZvLPI3cIhjLKusMXD4KVq4uPU/UgqnJiTviuR1lRkw3Lepsd5PmuZlfacfjvQacFzTlRNN/U/9pWmaBgGbLjUnAuPcWiTZFWcnas2PlZrD2D8RPQzWpWOKgJgRnoP+N+h+nJbLI3Li3hYgMh7lLUS5t9ne+H8w468= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:36:19 -0800 From: Jared Still To: ganstadba@hotmail.com Subject: Re: OT-is there a way to do this in unix - date question Cc: oracle-l@freelists.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: X-archive-position: 15720 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jkstill@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: jkstill@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: This works in bash and korn. Put it into your .kshrc or .bashrc initmonths() { typeset m typeset i echo Initializing months... for m in Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec do ((i=i+1)) months[$i]=$m done } getmonth() { typeset n=$1 [ -z "${months[${n}]}" ] && initmonths echo ${months[${n}]} } getmonth 4 getmonth 7 getmonth 11 That was fun, I should do more of that. :) On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:12:23 -0500, Michael McMullen wrote: > without writing a whole series of ifs, given a number 1 - 12 give the > corresponding three letter month > like what you get with date +%b, but someone supplies you the digits > -- > http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l