I am trying to get last 5 business day .
trying
for d in Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
do
date +%Y%m%d -d "last $d"
done
gives me date
Thu Oct 20 23:56:26 EDT 2016
20161017
20161018
20161019
20161013
20161014
expected output should be
20161017
20161018
20161019
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