get_whatdays() { # Sample input:20020703 year=`echo $1|cut -c1-4` month=`echo $1|cut -c5-6` day=`echo $1|cut -c7-8` b=`cal $month $year|wc -l ` dow=`cal $month $year |awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i=='$day'){if (NR=='"$b"'-1){print i-1}else{print 7-NF+i-1}}}}'` # Convert the numeric day of the week to a string case $dow in 0) print Sun ;; 1) print Mon ;; 2) print Tue ;; 3) print Wed ;; 4) print Thu ;; 5) print Fri ;; 6) print Sat ;; *) print "wrong date" ;; esac }