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Old 07-20-2004
Question date manipulations

i need a date manipulation unix shell script, to find the difference between any two dates. kindly help meSmilie
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Old 07-20-2004
Hello user1,

Perderabo wrote an already famous scripts which will probably help you a lot. Click here.
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Old 07-20-2004
We use Perderbo's script...very, very useful. No bugs so far ( not that I would imagine there would be any).
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