I have a script that needs to input a start and end date. It works fine until the end of of the month when the start date is say April 30 and the end date is May 1.

My soliton was to check if the second day is smaller then the first, if so, take "1" away from the month. The problem is, I loose the "0" padding on single digit months and I need it to be 2 i.e April needs to be "04", not "4"

I did this little test script up to show what I mean. (If I just use `date +%m` all is fine, if I use "$((`date +%0m`-1))" I loose the padding)



#!/bin/ksh/

clear

echo
echo "Starting day i.e 11"
read date1

echo
echo "Ending day i.e 12"
read date2

echo

if [ $date2 -lt $date1 ]

then

month1="$((`date +%0m`-1))"

else

month1=`date +%m`

fi


echo "The first date is $date1/$month1, and the second date is $date2/`date +%m`."


Any ideas?

should work, though I don't know why you need explicit +%0m padding, for me +%m shows a leading zero.

Thanks, that did it!

I added the 0 in an attempt to add the padding..... did not work. But thats all right as your example works fine.....

Thanks again!