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Shell date command for manipulation and formatting date
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01-30-2008, 03:12 AM
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Shell date command for manipulation and formatting date
This will give a date using date utility to find next day for system date in a particular format .
date --date='next day' "+%Y%m%d" . in the same way i need a output to get the next day or next month for any date which the user is passing as a parameter $1. Say $1 (i pass as $1 as23/12/2007 then i need the 5 day of 23/12/2007 i.e output /result 28/12/2007) something like this below mydate=$1 date --date $mydate +%m%d%Y -d ýesterday (this does not work) Is it possible ? if so pls give me the soln/command . Thks 
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01-30-2008, 01:21 PM
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Have your tried yest?
Download of the day: Easy date manipulation with yest utility under Linux/UNIX
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