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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Yesterday in UNIX Post 302935260 by jim mcnamara on Friday 13th of February 2015 09:21:06 PM
Old 02-13-2015
Does /usr/sfw/bin on your solaris box have gdate or date?

And. If you cannot change anything at why are you asking for something that implies some kind of code change?
This works on solaris10 and solaris11 - We use it in lots of scripts.
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
# usage /path/to/then.pl 7 for date seven days ago
#          /path/to/then.pl 1  for yesterday
ago()
{
   perl -e ' my $delta = $ARGV[0];
             $delta*=86400;
             $delta=time - $delta;
             @t=localtime( $delta );
             printf("%02d-%02d-%d", $t[4]+1, $t[3], $t[5]+1900); ' $1
}

echo $(ago $1)

 

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bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
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