On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 02:40 PM, 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

just for reference -- Mac OS X (BSD variant) does not like the -d option.


date: illegal option -- d
usage: date [-nu] [-r seconds] [+format]
       date [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]hh]mm[.ss]

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