Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a script that works perfectly on a linux box, but I am going to have to move it over to solaris which I have never really worked with. I was a bit miffed that date -d was not available on solaris so I started looking for alternative soltuoins and found this forum and datecalc.

But I have a question beofre I attempt to use it. Does it allow parsing the date output like the date command does? Such as I need to output like "05/07/08"? Is that available.. I cant really tell by reading the documentation.

Also can anyone point me to any other way to actually accomplish what date -d is able to accomplish... or better yet, does anyone know if there is a solaris package available for gnu date?

Thanks,
Trey

rd=`date +%d/%m/%y`
echo $rd

hope that help

Well, yeah I guess it helped, but thats not the command I was looking for help with. I was looking for help with the datecalc script

Ksh93 provides builtin date arithmetic via printf %T and does anything date -d can do and lots more. If ksh93 is not available on your system, you can always download the ksh93 binary for the particular version of Solaris you have from research.att.com.

thanks for the info, for the time being I installed coreutils from sunfreeware.org. ksh93 is available, so Ill see if I can get a handle on the verbiage of printf %T for future use and rewrites of this script. Im not the worlds best scripter so it may be too much for me to tackle quickly enough to rewrite everything I need in ksh.