[mdlug] Extracting the day of the Week in BASH

[Robert Adkins]

Ray,

    You da' man!

    Thanks,
    Rob

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Robert Adkins
>>     
>
>   
>>     Anyone know either the variable that returns the actual day of the 
>> week or a very short script to extract the day of the week?
>>     
>
>  date | cut -d" " -f 1
>
>  Works for me, on Linux and Solaris.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                       (313) 227-2317
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