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Old 07-26-2010
Generate dates

let says, today is my payroll day (7/26), my next payroll day will be 8/9. i want to generate a shell script to extract 8/9, 8/23, 9/6, and so on for 2010.
# 2  
Old 07-26-2010
Code:
days_from_today()
{
perl -e '
      # time structure into variables
      $when = time + ( $ARGV[0] * 86400);
      ($sec,$min,$hr,$day,$mon,$yr,$wday,@dntcare) = localtime($when);
      $yr = ($yr>=70) ? $yr+1900 : $yr+2000;
      $mon += 1;
      printf("%02d/%02d %d", $mon, $day, $yr);
      '  $1
}

increment=0
days_from_today $increment | read dt yr
print $dt
while :
do
    increment=$(( increment + 14 ))
    days_from_today $increment | read dt yr
    if [[ $yr -gt 2010 ]]
    then
       break
    fi   
    print $dt
done

# 3  
Old 07-26-2010
Thank you much; exactly what i wanted.
 
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