Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi.

The date now +6 days doesn't work on my Linux.

As you're using Oracle anyway, why not let it deal with it?

Code:

sysdate + 6

will give you the date you're looking for.

There's no hint in your code where you actually intend to use the future date.

Hi,

date now +6 days '+%m/%d/20%y' is not working in solaris.

And I need to do in the shell itself. I cant do in oracle prompt. because the requirement is as such.

So can u pls help me to find the date of currentdate+6 days?

I's working with OpenSolaris (and Solaris if you install gnu date):

Code:

$ uname -a 
SunOS pcjll 5.11 snv_118 i86pc i386 i86pc
$ /usr/gnu/bin/date -d "now +6 days" "+%m/%d/%Y"
11/24/2009

I fixed the Y2.1K bug

If you need something only based on already installed tools, you might use that perl oneliner:

Code:

$ perl -MPOSIX -e 'print strftime("%m/%d/%Y%n",localtime(time+6*24*60*60));'
11/24/2009

Thanks for the quick reply.

I think gnu is not installed for me.

$ uname -a
SunOS osp2pits03-th 5.10 Generic_118833-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

But perl -MPOSIX -e 'print strftime("%m/%d/%Y%n",localtime(time+6*24*60*60));' is working fine.

shall I use this perl line in a k shell? am new to shell script.that's why am asking.

any my exact requirement as such

inputdate=25/11/2009
requiredate=$inputdate+6
echo "$requiredate"

I tried through the following way.

$ noofdays=$1
$ totaldays=24*noofdays
$ next_date=`TZ=CST-$totaldays date +%d/%b/%Y `
$ echo "$next_date"
19/Nov/2009
$ noofdays=$1
$ inputdate=$2
$ totaldays=24*noofdays
$ future_date=`TZ=CST-$totaldays $inputdate `
$ echo $future_date

but $future_date is giving blank output.

pls help to sort out this. or is there anyother simple way than this?