I didn't realize the GNU version of the'date' command had all these
options, but the 'tomorrow' and 'yesterday' don't seem to work for me. A
bunch of the other forms I tried worked fine.
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[rep@ns1 ~]$ date --date 'yesterday'
Tue May 12 08:11:40 EDT 1998
[rep@ns1 ~]$ date
Tue May 12 08:10:43 EDT 1998
[rep@ns1 ~]$ date --date 'yesterday'
Tue May 12 08:11:56 EDT 1998
[rep@ns1 ~]$ date --date 'tomorrow'
Tue May 12 08:12:03 EDT 1998
[rep@ns1 ~]$ date --date 'last friday'
Fri May 8 00:00:00 EDT 1998
[rep@ns1 ~]$ date --date '1 day ago'
Mon May 11 08:11:37 EDT 1998
[rep@ns1 ~]$ date --date '3 days'
Fri May 15 08:12:17 EDT 1998
[rep@ns1 ~]$ date --v
date (GNU sh-utils) 1.16
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Is there something obvious that I'm missing here? This is in RH 5.0 with
all the updates applied (at least the last time I checked, a few days ago).
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> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:27:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: John H Darrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Redhat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: HELP needed with shell-script.
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>
> On Sun, 10 May 1998, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
>
> > I want to add a directory yo a zip file, but the name of the zip file
> > must the day before the current day.
> >
> > Thus, a file must be create with the following name 05-10-98.zip
> >
>
> zip -r $(date --date 'yesterday' '+%m-%d-%y.zip') your_dir
>
>
> I don't know if this is the zip command you are
> using, but the date command above will return a
> filename created from yesterdays date.
>
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