how to get what date was 28 days ago of the current system date IN UNIX


 
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Old 03-18-2010
how to get what date was 28 days ago of the current system date IN UNIX

Hi,

Anybody knows how to get what date was 28 days ago of the current system date through UNIX script.

Ex : - If today is 28th Mar 2010 then I have to delete the files which arrived on 1st Mar 2010,
kandi.reddy
# 2  
Old 03-18-2010
Code:
date +%Y-%m-%d --date='28 day ago'

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Old 03-18-2010
date +%Y-%m-%d --date='28 day ago'

With the above command it will give the current date...

I need what date it was 28 days ago from the todays date.
kandi.reddy
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Old 03-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kandi.reddy
date +%Y-%m-%d --date='28 day ago'
With the above command it will give the current date...
I need what date it was 28 days ago from the todays date.
Have you executed that command? and what output you got?
No it is giving 28 days ago from the current date.

When I executed the above command I got
Code:
18-02-2010

That is February 18th of 2010.
This is 28 days ago from 18th March of 2010(today)

Last edited by thillai_selvan; 03-18-2010 at 08:02 AM..
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Old 03-18-2010
Hi thillai_selvan,

I suspect the command you have given might be OS dependent (the format you suggested available under GNU and it's part of sh-utils package) as it does not work in my case too.

Code:
 
avalon:/disk1/jvsh/TEST/TES>date
Thu Mar 18 16:39:47 IST 2010
avalon:/disk1/jvsh/TEST/TES>date +%Y-%m-%d --date='28 day ago'
2010-03-18

Reddy,

have a look here : https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...ipulation.html

and something also like this you can use :

Code:
perl -le 'print scalar localtime (time() - 86400 * 28);'


Last edited by panyam; 03-18-2010 at 08:18 AM..
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Old 03-18-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by kandi.reddy
date +%Y-%m-%d --date='28 day ago'

With the above command it will give the current date...

I need what date it was 28 days ago from the todays date.
Will work only if it is GNU date.

Try a generic one which will work irespective of OS and date flavours..(If perl is available...Smilie )



Code:
 
var=`perl -w -e '$d=28*86400;@t=localtime (time -$d); printf "%d%.2d%.2d", $t[5]+1900,$t[4]+1,$t[3];'`
echo $var

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Old 03-18-2010
Code:
find -mtime +28 -exec rm {} \;

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