Check to see if today is a certain date

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Published on 2010-03-17T20:21:26Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 20:31 UTC
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I want to check if the day is Sunday, but for some reason I can't get it to work.

[[ "date '+%a'" == "Sun" ]] && echo "Today is Sunday"

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