On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > I have sometimes needed to get the date of yesterday or last monday > and so on for creating filenames. > > We have this very flexible code in at(1) and cvs(1) for specifying > time. > > Anyone up for making it possible to say: > > date -w "2 days ago" > > ? -w ? isn't it -v ? date -v-2d ? Anyway I do not like both of this ... I think I haven't used -v since that one day in 2000.... : THE PROBLEM: : --------------- : : for this night : : : > date : Sat Apr 1 00:26:11 CEST 2000 : > date -v-1d +%Y%m : 200002 : > date -v-1d +%Y%m%d : 20000229 : > date : Sat Apr 1 00:26:21 CEST 2000 -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeTReceived on Wed Sep 08 2004 - 09:45:11 UTC
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