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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting ksh Post 302934586 by RavinderSingh13 on Monday 9th of February 2015 02:11:17 AM
Old 02-09-2015
Hello Shaho87,

Could you please try following and let me know if this helps.
Code:
cat date_script.ksh
echo "Please enter a date in YYYYMMDD format:"
read DATE
echo "Please enter number of days which we want to take date from today's:"
read DAYS
date -d"$DATE +$DAYS day"

Following will be output after running the script.
Code:
./date_script.ksh
Please enter a date in YYYYMMDD format:
20140202
Please enter number of days which we want to take date from today's:
10
Wed Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2014

Hope this helps.


Thanks,
R. Singh
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netsds::util::datetime

NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)

NAME

       NetSDS::Util::DateTime - common date/time processing routines

SYNOPSIS

	       use NetSDS::Util::DateTime;

	       print "Current date: " . date_now();

DESCRIPTION

       This package provides set of routines for date and time processing.

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

       date_now_array([TIME])
	   Returns array of date items for given date.	If source date is not set current date used.

       date_now([TIME])
	   Return [given] date as string.

	       2001-12-23 14:39:53

       date_now_iso8601([TIME])
	   Return date as ISO 8601 string.

	       20011223T14:39:53Z

	   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime>

       date_strip(DATE)
	   Trim miliseconds from date.

       date_date(DATE)
	   Trim time part from date.

       date_time(DATE)
	   Trim date part from date.

       time_from_string($string)
	   Return parsed date/time structure.

       date_from_string($string)
	   Return date from string representation.

       date_inc([INCREMENT, [TIME]])
	   Return date incremented with given number of seconds.

       date_inc_string([INCREMENT, [TIME]])
	   Return string representation of date incremented with given number of seconds.

EXAMPLES

       None yet

BUGS

       Unknown yet

SEE ALSO

       Date::Parse, Date::Format

TODO

       Import stuff from Wono project

AUTHOR

       Valentyn Solomko <val@pere.org.ua>

       Michael Bochkaryov <misha@rattler.kiev.ua>

perl v5.12.4							    2011-08-27					       NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)
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