dates

[Manuales]

How can i get the "date" 5 days ago?
if today is Friday Nov 3 and i need to know day of 5 days ago?

can i do operations among dates?

nov 3 - (5 days) = october 30

how can i do that, please let me know

[Michael Steele_2 · Accepted solution]

Refer to A. Clay Stevenson's script 'Date Hammer' which is found at the bottom of this link:

http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Manuales:

Use Perl;

# perl -MPOSIX -le '$ago=shift||0;print strftime "%d-%b-%y",localtime(time-(60*60*24*$ago))' 5

23-Oct-09

You can use the same formatting directives to the strftime() function that you would use with the 'date' command.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Raj D.]

Manuales,

Check few links: Hope this helps,

http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/78840-help-needed-calculate-previous-date.html

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?&threadId=1089955


http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1341724

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=999646


Date calculation program:
http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/29685-date-calculation-script.html



Hth,
Raj.

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hello,
caldj.sh -p5 -I -D

HTH,
Art