Summary: char2number() in Shell

From: Carl Ma (carl_ma@scotiacapital.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 18:00:41 EDT

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Thanks for the quick replies from Matthew Stier and Florendo Jay.

date +%w

does the trick.

thanks again!

carl
:Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 17:29:51 -0400 (EDT)
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:I am using the case to convert Monday,Tuesday..Friday to number 1,2,3,4,5 like:
:
:A=date +%a
:B=0
:
:case "$A" in
:
:Mon) B=1;;
:Tue) B=2;;
:Wed) B=3;;
:Thu) B=4;;
:Fri) B=5;;
:*) echo "can only run during Mon - Fri"
:
:esac
:
:Is there built-in functions in shell,which can make the script neat?
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:thanks & have a good weekend,
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:carl
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