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On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote:

> I'm  writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into  
> a variable. How can I do it?

Well, it depends on what you're using.  If you're using sh, see `man  
date`.  If you're using perl, it's quite complicated.

In short, with sh, simply use the built-in date command:

#!/bin/sh
weekday=`date "+%A"

See also man 3 strftime


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Eric F Crist
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