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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting /usr/local/bin/expr function not working Post 302607684 by Franklin52 on Thursday 15th of March 2012 05:35:25 AM
Old 03-15-2012
Code:
cutoffdate=`/usr/local/bin/expr $CurrentDate - 3`

You can't do date arithmetic with expr.
 

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