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Joe Schwartz wrote:
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> Folks,
> 
> Is there a canned utility to echo out the julian date?
> 
> If not, anyone have somthing to get it?
> 

$ date '+Today is julian day %j of %Y'
Today is julian day 312 of 1998


Read the man page for date.

Dave Bodenstab
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