Use date command to find last weeks mmddyy

[kozlow]

Is there a way to use the date command to give me the date from 8 days ago.

Say it is Monday July 2, I would want it to return June 25.

I thought I had this working at one time, but cannot find my test script...

 

[Chapter11]

gnu's version of date does this with the -d flag. AIX's date command doesn't do it.

 

[khalidaaa]

Have a look at this:

http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting-q-and-a/13731-getting-yesterday-date.html

perl -e 'print localtime(time() - 691200) . "\n" '

Regards,
Khalid

 

[columb]

PHV has one of the neatest bits of scripting I've ever seen to solve this. details at faq80-4800

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Columb Healy