Date manipulation

[trisco]

I am running an RS/6000 and wish to code a script to perform date manipulation that will result in a mm/dd/yy date that is 3 days from today. Can anyone provide assistance to ease the pain of controlling the month and year in such a script? Are there easier ways than some form of table management?
Thanks.

 

[bjverzal]

Do you have access to Perl ? If so (it is on the AIX 4.3.3 CD's if not), do the following

1. perl -e 'printf %d\n",time'
2. Add 259200 to the result (3-days, in seconds)
3. perl -le &quot;print scalar locatime <nnn>&quot; where &quot;<nnn>&quot; is the resukt from step 2 above.

Regards, Bill

 

[trisco]

Thanks so much, Bill. I do have perl installed and will utilize the commands you provided. Thanks again.
Trisco.