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Old 09-20-2012
date of a specific past day
Can I print the date of a specific date?

Let say, today is 20 and I want to print in date format the day 14

I know that I can do this:

date --date='last Mon'

but

How can I do this?:

date --date='last 14'

??
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Old 09-20-2012
if you have GNU date just go through the man pag..
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Old 09-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
if you have GNU date just go through the man pag..
I already read it
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Old 09-20-2012
you want date which is 14 days back from current date or you want to know which day of the week was it 14 days before current date or you want to know which day of the week is it 14th day of a month??
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Old 09-20-2012
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Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
you want date which is 14 days back from current date or you want to know which day of the week was it 14 days before current date or you want to know which day of the week is it 14th day of a month??
that

I already know that n days back form current date I can do:

date --date='n day ago'

the red highlighted is what I need
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Old 09-20-2012
Here you go sir..
if you want specific month and year please help yourself....
Code:
 
cal|awk 'NR==2{day=$0};/14/{print substr(day,index($0,"14"),3)}'

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Old 09-20-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
Here you go sir..
if you want specific month and year please help yourself....
Code:
 
cal|awk 'NR==2{day=$0};/14/{print substr(day,index($0,"14"),3)}'

heyy, that's great, thanks a lot !

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