[mdlug] Extracting the day of the Week in BASH

[bob dion]

Duane Brown wrote:
> 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

>>   
> 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.
> 

Carl had a typo there it's 'date +%a' or 'date +%A'

BD