Subject: Re: How to get arbitrary time in shell script?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/29/2001 07:06:26 
On 2001.11.28 13:51, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Christoph Kaegi wrote:
> 
> > So, how can i get a date from three days ago?
> > date(1) doesn't have an option like 
> > 
> >    date '+ 3 days ago'
> 
>  date -r `expr \`date +%s\` - 259200`
> # where 259200 is 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 3 days
> 

Thanks alot! 

Somehow I missed the -r option when scanning
the man page! Will RTFM better in the future...

Regards

Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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