Re: date command two days from now

As much as I love Perl, I have a cool little date trick for you...

NEXTDATE=$(TZ=CST-42CDT date +%Y%m%d)

1. Echo your $TZ - in my case I got CST6CDT
2. Subtract (subtract for forward, add for backward) 48 from your timezone
offset
3. Adjust as needed.



Steve





Enrique Sanchez
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I would use perl,

perl -e ' $string=localtime( time()+48*3600),print
"$string \n"'
Thu Jan 25 18:52:05 2007


regards,
esv.

--- Andrew.Townsend@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Is there a way to get the date from say two days
from now or two hours from
now for scripting purposes?

I mean like:

date +"%d %h %y" gives you 23 Jan 07

But I want

23 Jan 07

Or instead of "Tuesday" I'm looking for "Thursday".


Any ideas?

Thanks,



Enrique Sanchez Vela
email: esanchezvela@xxxxxxxxx
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