Modifying today's date?

[stu78]

Hi,

Does anyone know a command to modify today's date in c shell? Basically I need to find todays date & subtract 4 from it....

Any Ideas?

Thanks.
Stewart.

 

[tdatgod]

Hi,
There is a FAQ about how to find yesterday's date.

faq80-953

using this technique you can just change the +24 to +96 and get the date from 4 days ago.

 

[stu78]

Thanks tdatgod,

However this technique uses the Bourne Shell, I am using the C-Shell.

Thanks,
Stu.

 

[vgersh99]

XI Commendment: "Thou shall not use C-shell for thy scripting"

 

[tdatgod]

I program CSH as well but I have learned to translate

#!/usr/bin/sh
TZ="$TZ+24"
export TZ
day=`date +%m/%d/%y`
echo $day

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#!/bin/csh

@ x = $TZ + 24
setenv TZ $x
day=`date +%m/%d/%y`
echo $day



Again change the 24 to 96.


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