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# 1  
Old 08-01-2012
Error Last weeks date
I am unable to get the last week date i tried to use the following commands but i failed
Please help, and am using HP unix
Code:
date -d "+1 week"
date --date=yesterday +%y%m%d

# 2  
Old 08-01-2012
-d only supports in GNU date

https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...rithmetic.html
# 3  
Old 08-01-2012
I did not got the solution from the above link, please help i need the last week's date and yesterdays date.....
# 4  
Old 08-01-2012
Code:
$ perl -e 'print localtime(time() - 86400) . "\n" '
Tue Jul 31 08:32:31 2012
$ perl -e 'print localtime(time() - 7*86400) . "\n" '
Wed Jul 25 08:32:39 2012

https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...rithmetic.html
# 5  
Old 08-01-2012
How to get the date in dd/mm/yyyy format using the above command
# 6  
Old 08-01-2012
Try:
Code:
$ perl -e 'use POSIX strftime; print POSIX::strftime("%d/%m/%Y\n", localtime(time()-7*86400))'
26/07/2012

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