Greetings, Would like to ask that you will consider the following extension to 'date'. The change will make it easier to perform basic date manipulations in scripts.
The request is to add the following 'suffixes' to the date (similar to the way relative dates are supported): * EOM - last date of the month * BOM - beginning of the month * EOY - last date on the year * BOY - first date of the year * prev EOM - last day previous month * next EOM - last day next month * prev EOY, next EOY - ditto. While all of the constructs can be achieved today, they require multiple calls to date, with cumbersome formatting. Having those as "built-in" will make it easier to perform date manipulations. Consider getting the number of days in the previous month Now: INPUT=2019-02-28 date +'%d' -d "$(date +'%Y-%m-01' -d "$INPUT") -1day" Using PREV EOM date +'%d' -d "$INPUT prev EOM" Thank you for taking time to look into this request. Any feedback is welcomed. Yair Lenga
