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Old 02-14-2013
He already has perl, just not that module.

This is why I dislike perl modules; nobody bothers writing vanilla perl code, nobody can understand or use each other's programs... The POSIX module fortunately comes standard:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX qw(strftime);
# 1 = monday, subtract 1+days to get last sat.
my $stamp = time() - ((strftime("%u",localtime)+1) * 86400);
print strftime("%Y-%m-%d\n", localtime($stamp));

# 9  
Old 02-18-2013
Thanks
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Thanks its working. Thanks a lot
# 10  
Old 02-18-2013
GNU's date has this capability to entertain your request...if you have that installed.

Code:
date -d "last saturday"

or

Code:
date -d "last saturday" +%Y%m%d

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Old 02-22-2013
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