I have a query here, following are the points on same(Adding today's is 31st August 2016 for future reference).
1st Scenario: So while doing some work on GNU date, I wanted to check what was the month(in numbers) by GNU date so I have done following.
Above gives me output as follows. 2nd Scenario: When I check this in terms of days then following is the result.
So after executing above scenarios I felt like if as a user I do -2 months with GNU date then it should ideally provide me month June, because when I do date -d"-3 months" +%m%d it shows me 0531.
So what is my observation is even we do -month option with GNU date in backend it will count by days only, if I am right here, so isn't it something kind of bug etc or it is expected behavior.
Will be grateful to all for your suggestions and advices here.
NOTE: testing it in BASH and version is date (GNU coreutils) 8.4.
Thanks,
R. Singh
Last edited by RavinderSingh13; 08-31-2016 at 12:44 PM..
hi,
how do i get the last day of the current date or a given date using unix.
for e.g. if i run the command/script on 1st feb 2002 i should get 28 th feb 2002.
thanks !!
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