Re: Obtain the date of three days ago

From: Chris F.A. Johnson (c.f.a.johnson_at_rogers.com)
Date: 04/30/03

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    Date: 30 Apr 2003 06:51:35 GMT

    On Tue, 29 Apr 2003 at 21:36 GMT, Nicholas Bachmann wrote:
    > davehinz@spamcop.net wrote:
    >> Someone who looks an awful lot like Jon Mann <jon@spinis-associates.co.uk> wrote:
    >>
    >>>Joom wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>>With GNU date:
    >>> date -d '3 day ago'
    >>
    >>
    >> Well, I'll be darned. Never stumbled across that one before. Thanks
    >> for that...
    >
    > It even works with the more English sounding 'days'...

        Or:

    date -d " -3 days"

        If yo don't have GNU date, and cannot install it, it's not hard to
        do in a shell script. Google the archives of comp.unix.shell for
        many examples. 

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