Why does script for adding a day to last day of month which is Friday fail to give correct output?
Issue
- The following script is to add a day if next day is
Sat
orSun
, its giving us02/Nov/2014
while output should be03/Nov/2014
#!/bin/bash
CurrDateValtest=20141031
NxtDateValtest=`date --date="$(date -d "$CurrDateValtest")+1 day" '+%Y%m%d'`
NxtDaytest=`date --date="$(date -d "$NxtDateValtest")" "+%a"`
echo "Next Day value is $NxtDaytest"
if [ $NxtDaytest = 'Sun' ]
then
NxtDateValtest=`date --date="$(date -d "$NxtDateValtest")+1 day" '+%Y%m%d'`
echo "Displaying next day value after adding as --> $NxtDateValtest"
else
if [ $NxtDaytest = 'Sat' ]
then
NxtDateValtest=`date --date="$(date -d "$NxtDateValtest")+2 day" '+%Y%m%d'`
echo "Displaying next day value after adding as --> $NxtDateValtest"
fi
fi
- This problem is only prone to last working day of month if that happens to be a
Friday
.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
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