A.P. Lawrence

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How can I find tomorrow's or yesterday's date in a script?

datemath.tgz is available from ftp://ftp.jpr.com , that gives you the ability to do (for example):

 datecalc + 1

and get tomorrow's date. There are shell and awk scripts for various date related tasks.

If running Linux, "date --date=tomorrow" is a simple way to do it. On Mac OS X, you could do:

x=`date +%s`
date -r `expr $x + 86400`

It's all a lot easier with Perl. See http://aplawrence.com/Bofcusm/1455.html and http://aplawrence.com/Unix/yesterday.html also.

Comments /SCOFAQ/FAQ_scotec6datemath.html


Tue Mar 21 08:23:48 2006: Subject:   anonymous
I see only script for yesterday date.


Why no one post about how to find tomorrow date?

Tue Mar 21 14:35:45 2006: Subject:   BigDumbDinosaur
I see only script for yesterday date. Why no one post about how to find tomorrow date?

Try carefully reading the entire page, bucko. The answer is right there in front of you. Geesh!



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