Hi, lilit-aibolit wrote on Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 03:24:36PM +0300:
> $ date --date="last month" +%b > Mar Time for a little shell golfing? Look, i'll play it nice and even add two blanks for readability. $ date -j +%b $(printf "%02d010000" $(( ($(date +%m)+11)%12 ))) Mar There is no need to install GNU tools for simple one-liners. Yours, Ingo