[TriLUG] OT: bash scripting question

[Chris Knowles]

Well, darn.

I thought I'd tried all the possible variations, but I used "now-N" or
"now+N"

It's a shame that isn't documented in the man page.

As always Jon, thanks,

CJK
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 14:40, Jon Carnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 13:17, Chris Knowles wrote:
> > I do have a question... date -d "yesterday" and date -d "tomorrow"
> > works, but what's the right way to generate a date 1 week ago,
> 
> date -d "-1 week"
> 
> >  or an
> > arbitrary date? (30 days ago, 45 days ago, 10 days from now, etc)
> 
> date -d "-30 days", date -d "-45 days", date -d "+10 days"
> 
> HtH - Jon
> 
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