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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

Steven said:

> Sheldon Isaac wrote:
> >
> > The purpose is to find out how many days it is until Jan 15 2007.
> > Under BL 3.40 here, it gives errors right away; wrong syntax.

> Why don't you use the following to get how many days have elapsed in
> the current year:

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date +%j

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> Subtract it from 365 and add it to 15 (the number of days from the end
> of the current year to Jan 15). 

It worked; but I still need some basic usage instructions for the bash in 
BL3.40

Thanks much,
Sheldon

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#!/bin/sh
today=`date +%j`
left=`expr 365 - $today`
total=`expr $left + 15`
echo It is $total days until Jan 15.

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