In a previous article, we started a script that worked backward from a day and month date and figured out the most recent year—including possibly the current year—that would match that date occurring ...

Many UNIX commands (for example, last) and log files show brain-dead date strings, such as “Thu Feb 24”. Does anybody out there have a script that will convert that to a year, given a five-year ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...