I was inspired by Dave Vehrs after I downloaded his custom prompt script and looking around for a proper DOW.sh to include in it, after I could not find it, I wrote one ! what you see here is a script that may be executed at a console prompt. a caveat: I read many help sites about various implementations of a DOW.sh, with this one it should help quite a few people out there that are having problems with it.


#!/bin/bash
# Filename: DOW.sh
# Written 09 March, 2009 by Paul D. Thompson
#
RS='\033[0m'
HIGH='\033[1m' # Hicolor attribute
BOLD='\003[6m'
BLINK='\033[5m' # Blinking attribute
INVERSE='\033[7m' # Invert background and foreground

BLACK='\033[0;30m'
RED='\033[0;31m'
GREEN='\033[0;32m'
BROWN='\033[0;33m'
BLUE='\033[0;34m'
PURPLE='\033[0;35m'
CYAN='\033[0;36m'
LGRAY='\033[0;37m'

GRAY='\033[1;30m'
LRED='\033[1;31m'
LGREEN='\033[1;32m'
YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
LBLUE='\033[1;34m'
PINK='\033[1;35m'
LCYAN='\033[1;36m'
WHITE='\033[1;37m'

function WhatDayIsIt()
{
export DAY=`date +%A`
case $DAY in
Monday ) DayColor="$LGREEN" ;; # This is the first day of the week on my system e.g. 1
Tueday ) DayColor="$YELLOW" ;; # 2 ... exporting DAY='date +%u would probably be more
Wednesday ) DayColor="${LRED}$BLINK" ;; # 3 ... expedient because this would be using #'s instead
Thursday ) DayColor="$PURPLE" ;; # 4 ... of the actual word name for the day of the week,
Friday ) DayColor="$PINK" ;; # 5 ... but for readability, I used the date +%A format.
Saturday ) DayColor="$LCYAN" ;; # 6
Sunday ) DayColor="${CYAN}" ;; # 7
esac

echo -ne "${DayColor}$(date '+%A, %d %B %Y') @ $(date '+%H%M') Hours $(date +%Z%n)${RS}\[\n\]"
}
WhatDayIsIt