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Old 10-28-2008
How to do the date operation ???
Dear Brothers and Sisters ,

If I use the command date , it will echo out today . How can I get the tomorrow date using the command date ? How to I do the date operation ?
Thanks you very much SmilieSmilieSmilieSmilieSmilie
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Old 10-28-2008
man date
Code:
# date --version | head -1
date (GNU coreutils) 5.97
# date; date -d "+1 day"
Tue Oct 28 00:24:05 EDT 2008
Wed Oct 29 00:24:05 EDT 2008

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