[mdlug] Extracting the day of the Week in BASH

[Aaron Kulkis]

Aaron Kulkis 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?
> 
> Uh, just use the date command
> 
> VARIABLE=`some_command`
> 
> prints $VARIABLE # produces the output of the command
> 

OOPS!

echo $VARIABLE

> 
> 
> That, in combination with "man date"
> should give you everything you need to know
>