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Old 12-20-2009
need help to get last week date

Hi,

How to get last week date ?
Normally i use this command :

Quote:
date -d '-7day' +%Y%m%d
But somehow this not working in SunOS

And i try use this :

Quote:
TZ=BNT+168 date '+%Y%m%d'
But in SunOS only working only get last 6 days

Cheers,
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Old 12-21-2009
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