[mdlug] Extracting the day of the Week in BASH

[Duane Brown]

Robert Adkins wrote:
>     My Google-Fu seems to be composed of weak sauce today.
>
>     I am rewriting some scripts and due to the nature of what they do, I 
> would be best served to be able to pull up the actual name of the day in 
> order to properly organize the final resting place of some data.
>
>     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?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Rob
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Is what you're looking for "date -A" or for the 3 char abbr "date -a"?

I guess some more facts might be called for.

Duane