How To Getting Yesterdays or Tomorrows day with shell date command

When invoked without arguments, the date command displays the current date and time. Depending on the options specified, date will set the date and time or print it in a user defined way. I’ve seen many people writing a perl script for calculating yesterday or tomorrow. Computer loves numbers but we love relative terms like [...]

Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Denie
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How to format date for display or to use in a shell script

Q. How do I format date to display on screen on for my scripts as per my requirements?
A. You need to use standard date command to format date or time for output or to use in a shell script.
Syntax to specify format
date +FORMAT

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Posted on June 29th, 2010 by Denie
Filed under: BASH, Linux, Tutorials | No Comments »