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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to increment date using "for loop" in format MMDDYY inside the shell script? Post 302763089 by aroragaurav.84 on Tuesday 29th of January 2013 01:37:39 PM
Old 01-29-2013
Code:
for i in {1..10}
do
   date +"%d/%m/%y" --date="-$i days ago"
done

but getting the error
Code:
date: 0551-402 Invalid character in date/time specification.
Usage: date [-u] [+"Field Descriptors"]

 

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PMDATE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 PMDATE(1)

NAME
pmdate - display an offset date SYNOPSIS
pmdate [ offset ... ] format DESCRIPTION
pmdate displays the current date and/or time, with an optional offset. An offset is specified with a leading sign (``+'' or ``-''), followed by an integer value, followed by one of the following ``scale'' spec- ifiers; S seconds M minutes H hours d days m months y years The output format follows the same rules as for date(1) and strftime(3). For example, the following will display the date a week ago as DDMMYYYY; pmdate -7d %d%m%Y PCP ENVIRONMENT
Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configura- tion file, as described in pcp.conf(5). SEE ALSO
date(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5). Performance Co-Pilot PCP PMDATE(1)
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