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Originally Posted by CarloM

It's part of coreutils.

iirc, IBM offer a coreutils RPM for AIX.

Thank you!
How to install a rpm file on AIX? I use to do this on linux but AIX...

So I took a gz file (coreutils-5.0.tar.gz) on your link and launch ./configure
The installation works but date -d doesn't work

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Check it's picking up the right date (from wherever you configured it to - iirc the default is /usr/local/bin).

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