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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting datecalc question. Post 302192812 by trey85stang on Thursday 8th of May 2008 12:51:26 AM
Old 05-08-2008
datecalc question.
I have a script that works perfectly on a linux box, but I am going to have to move it over to solaris which I have never really worked with. I was a bit miffed that date -d was not available on solaris so I started looking for alternative soltuoins and found this forum and datecalc.

But I have a question beofre I attempt to use it. Does it allow parsing the date output like the date command does? Such as I need to output like "05/07/08"? Is that available.. I cant really tell by reading the documentation.

Also can anyone point me to any other way to actually accomplish what date -d is able to accomplish... or better yet, does anyone know if there is a solaris package available for gnu date?

Thanks,
Trey
 

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