This is a method longhand, but I suspect it is not fully POSIX compliant.
OSX 10.14.1, default bash terminal.
Hi wisecracker,
You suspected correctly. The POSIX date utility does not have a -r option and the POSIX date utility does not have a %s format specifier. There are plans to add the %s format specifier in the next revision of the standard. So far, no one has requested adding date -r to the standard.
With standard implementations of awk, you can get the number of seconds since the Epoch (i.e. midnight at the start of January 1, 1970 GMT) using the command:
The perl code that Corona688 suggested in post #17 in this thread is probably the best bet on HP-UX, but, of course, perl isn't in the standard either. Nonetheless, perl is almost surely available for HP-UX from HP even though it isn't standard.
And, kmarcus, I apologize for post #18. I had already asked that question before in post #2 a month ago and you answered it in post #3.
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hii all.
I have to get the date of the 7th day past from the current date.
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