Shell Programming and Scripting

You have not followed the suggestion, so I'm not surprised.

As a quick test, can you do the following?:-

Code:

date -d"1 week ago"

If you get an error then we will know you haven't got that function available.



Robin

Hello mohtashims,

Seems to be that previous GNU date command is not working in Sun/Solaris OS, could you please try following and let me know if this works for you.

Code:

touch -t $(perl -e '@T=localtime(time-86400);printf("%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d\n",$T[5]+1900,$T[4]+1,$T[3]-6,$T[2],$T[1])')  Input_file
OR
touch -t $(perl -e '@T=localtime(time);printf("%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d\n",$T[5]+1900,$T[4]+1,$T[3]-7,$T[2],$T[1])')    Input_file

Thanks,
R. Singh

Thank you but i don't use perl.

I need a non-perl solution.

If we do not have a non-perl solution for my operating system do let me know, so i dont invest more time with this.

I note that when Ravinder suggested using:

Code:

+%y%m%d%H%M

as a date format when using the GNU date utility, you not only decided to ignore the fact that you would have to specify the pathname for the GNU date utility, you also decided to change that format to:

Code:

+%y%m%d%H%m

and, of course, it didn't work.

There is no way for us to know whether or not you have installed the GNU core utilities on your system or not, and if so, where you installed them. You might see if gdate would work with your default path or if /usr/gnu/bin/date would work.

Or, if you use ksh93 as your shell on a Solaris 11 system, the following should work for you:

Code:

touch -t $(printf '%(%Y%m%d%H%M)T' "7 days ago") hello.txt

If you choose to change the date format I specified, I don't want to hear about how you didn't get the right time.

If you choose to change 7 days ago to 1 week ago, I don't want to hear about how you got Monday a week ago instead of the current day a week ago.

If you choose to try the above command using some shell other than ksh93 to run that command, I don't want to hear about how it didn't work for you.

This worked !!

Code:

touch -t $(printf '%(%Y%m%d%H%M)T' "7 days ago") hello.txt

@Don Cragun -> Not to take anything away from anyone but you are amazing !!

If that is a new request, please be aware that
- it is usually preferred to open a new thread of its own with new questions
- the better (i.e. more precise/detailed) the specification, the better the results or proposals

What did you try to adapt the solutions presented before to solve your request?