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That is just a framework on how the script should be

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can someone help?

You agreed to not bump posts when you registered.

You've already been given a perfectly good answer in post #3! Type it into your shell, it works! If you want the current day, substitute `date +%Y-%m-%d` for 2012-01-27. If you want two days ahead, substitute whatever you want for the "+1 day" too! If you wanted epoch seconds instead of date's usual output you can configure date however you want to produce whatever output you want.

If this is somehow insufficient for your purposes you certainly haven't explained how.

In complement to corona's last post I would add that in the rules you agreed on, there was a mention about searching the forums first, If you did so, you would have found numerous posts on the subject, especially:
https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...rithmetic.html
So you have posted in terms of "Reading many posts in the forum e.g. "etc.." none solve my problem!
And your post would have then be read with great attention... and awaken the ape's curiosity in most of us, but the way you present things make us more wonder if we are dealing with someone too lazy to do a little search a some reading or a student trying to disguise a classwork or homework and so not being clear on what he actually wants afraid to be caught...
Why can you not use the given solution?