Hi i am trying to subtract days from current date. For example todays date is 10/03/2006. If i subtract 2 days it should give 8/03/2006. I am also trying to find the access date of a file in dd/mm/yyyy format. Can any one please help in how to do this.
Ramesh (1 Reply)
I have looked through the forums and found many date / time manipulation tools, but cannot seem to find something that fits my needs for the following.
I have a log file with date time stamps like this:
Jun 21 17:21:52
Jun 21 17:24:56
Jun 21 17:27:59
Jun 21 17:31:03
Jun 21 17:34:07
Jun... (0 Replies)
how can we add or subtract days from the output of date command in unix...
like if i want to subtract a day from the result of date command like this..
v_date=`date +%Y%m%d`
this wud give me 20080519
now i want to subtract one day from this.. so tht it wud give me 20080518..
how do i do... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I'm writing an batch file to create report
In the batch file iam passing two arguments:startdate and finishdate
Ex: startdate=07-sep-2009 finishdate=07-sep-2011
I need to have script that takes command line argument as input and gives me out currentdate last year and current date... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus!
I have a static date in a YYYYMMDD format; and I want get the date 2 years in the past and 2 years in the future.
static_date=20010203
old_date=$static_date - 3 years
future_date=$static_date + 2 years
I was only able to research on dates that are current and not on static... (3 Replies)
I got a statement like below to subtract 1 from given date using teradata. I am looking for a one line unix command to perform the same.
select 'parse_this_record', (DATE '${FILE_DATE}' - 1) (FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD');
Input: 2012-02-21
Expected Output: 2012-02-20
PS: One liner because I am... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am getting a date from environment variable and want to do some processing by subtracting 2 months from the date passed through the environment variable.
I am trying the following syntax :
date_var=2014-08-31
date_2M_ago='$date_var+"%d%m%y" --$date_var="2 months ago" '... (3 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have a file with 2 columns TAB delimited and I want to add '1' to the first column and subtract '-1' from the second column.
What I have tried so far is;
awk -F"\t" '{ $1-=1;$2+=1}1' OFS='\t' file
File
0623 0623
0624 0624
0643 0643
1059 1037
1037 1037
1038 1038... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a CSV file which is as below. Basically I need to take the year column in it and find if the year is >= 20152 . If that is then I should subtract all values by 6. In the below example in description I am having number mentioned as YYWW so I need to subtract those by -5. Whereever... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: arunkumar_mca
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)