topic Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d in Operating System - Linux

date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

John Meissner — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:30:52 GMT

I accidently posted this in HP-UX... but it's on linux

Can anyone give a hand. I'm trying to get 5 days from now in this format
2003-10-08
i.e. %Y-%m-%d
i've used the commands
date -d "5 days next"
but it returns
Mon Oct 13 01:00:00 UTC 2003
anyone have a quick one liner (preferably without the use of caljd.sh)?
Any answer will be appreciated

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

John Meissner — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:48:45 GMT

Clay answered my question here:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=230058

Other answers are still welcome though

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:49:38 GMT

try:
date -s '+5 days next'

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 11:52:40 GMT

Sorry , this is not what you mean -zero points both please

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

John Meissner — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 12:33:40 GMT

sorry.. had to give you one for the honesty factor :)

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:33:12 GMT

I hae actually ported version 2.1 of of caljd.sh to Linux.

Not that it was a big deal, I just changed the shell at the top of the script.

I am attaching my version.

SEP

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

Stuart Browne — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:43:49 GMT

Well I'll stick with Pete Randall, GNU date is much more powerful:

date -d "5 days next" +"%Y-%m-%d"

is exactally what you want.

Enjoy.

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

John Meissner — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 06:07:35 GMT

Stuart Browne -

That's perfect. Clay solved it from a different stand point (same result) on the HP forum. but that was much more simple....
my problem when i tried that was I typed:
date -d "5 days next" + "%Y-%m-%d"
instead of
date -d "5 days next" +"%Y-%m-%d"
(I had an extra space after the + sign)

thanks much!

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

Stuart Browne — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:19:49 GMT

Yea, I read what was said over there when you mentioned it. Clay and his perl-one-liners.. He's a damn god! ;P

Re: date 5 days from now formatted at %Y-%m-%d

John Meissner — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 06:29:11 GMT

Yeah.... Clay is so good it's scary sometimes