In message <Pine.BSF.4.53.0409081106290.51837_at_e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>, "Bjo ern A. Zeeb" writes: >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 ? I meant -w as a more flexible complement to the very restricted syntax of -v. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Wed Sep 08 2004 - 09:58:54 UTC
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