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Get all business days from week including today

I am trying to get last 5 business day [excluding sat and sun].
trying
Code:
for d in Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
do
date +%Y%m%d -d "last $d"
done

gives me [provided]
Code:
date
Thu Oct 20 23:56:26 EDT 2016
20161017
20161018
20161019
20161013
20161014

expected output should be
Code:
20161017
20161018
20161019
20161020
20161014


Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-21-2016 at 05:24 AM.. Reason: Fix existing and add missing CODE tags.
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