Portable Shell Script - Determine Which Version of Binary is Installed?
I currently have a shell script that utilizes the "Date" binary - this application is slightly different on OS X (BSD General Commmand) and Linux systems (gnu date). In particular, the version on OS X requires the following to get a date 14 days in the future "date -v+14d -u +%Y-%m-%d" where gnu date requires "date -d "+ 14 days" -u +%Y-%m-%d".
I desire to make my script portable - so I believe that I'll need to utilize a test to determine which version of the date application is installed and thus, what command to run. I've come up with the following two methods, but am looking for advice:
Is there a trick to determine the exact version from Unix that one is working with?
I would have expected to see it after logon, but all I get are some Copyright-messages...
I know it's some HP-UX, but I would like to know the version-number
Tnx in advance!
Dave (2 Replies)
I'm looking for a generic (i.e. would be resident in most/all unix flavors) internal command for determining my OS and version. When I telnet to a box here @ work, I get none of that info and can't remember the equivalent of the DOS ver command; I know I used to know this! Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hello,
How to i determine via ftp commandline if files on ftp server is ascii or binary files. Like every other comon windows ftp program does it automatically.
regards
Thomas (5 Replies)
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How can I determine to which package a file or binary belongs to.
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
datetime.modify
DATETIME.MODIFY(3) 1 DATETIME.MODIFY(3)DateTime::modify - Alters the timestamp
Object oriented style
SYNOPSIS
public DateTime DateTime::modify (string $modify)
DESCRIPTION
Procedural style
DateTime date_modify (DateTime $object, string $modify)
Alter the timestamp of a DateTime object by incrementing or decrementing in a format accepted by strtotime(3).
PARAMETERS
o $object
-Procedural style only: A DateTime object returned by date_create(3). The function modifies this object.
o $modify
-A date/time string. Valid formats are explained in Date and Time Formats.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the DateTime object for method chaining or FALSE on failure.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.3.6 | |
| | |
| | Absolute date/time statements now take effect. |
| | Previously, only relative parts were used. |
| | |
| 5.3.0 | |
| | |
| | Changed the return value on success from NULL to |
| | DateTime. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
DateTime.modify(3) example
Object oriented style
<?php
$date = new DateTime('2006-12-12');
$date->modify('+1 day');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d');
?>
Procedural style
<?php
$date = date_create('2006-12-12');
date_modify($date, '+1 day');
echo date_format($date, 'Y-m-d');
?>
The above examples will output:
2006-12-13
Example #2
Beware when adding or subtracting months
<?php
$date = new DateTime('2000-12-31');
$date->modify('+1 month');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "
";
$date->modify('+1 month');
echo $date->format('Y-m-d') . "
";
?>
The above example will output:
2001-01-31
2001-03-03
SEE ALSO strtotime(3), DateTime.add(3), DateTime.sub(3), DateTime.setDate(3), DateTime.setISODate(3), DateTime.setTime(3), DateTime.setTimes-
tamp(3).
PHP Documentation Group DATETIME.MODIFY(3)