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Old 06-25-2008
Add a day to a given date

Hi,

I have a date field which is a variable field being passed to the script from outside.
I need to know how i can add 1 day to it.

I have seen example of date subtraction but while adding each time date reaches 31 or 30 i have to put if else condition.
Or for leap year also.

Kindly let me know if there is any function in unix to add 1 day to any date field.
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Old 06-25-2008
FAQs are your new best friend.
# 3  
Old 06-26-2008
NO luck

I searched FAQ but cldnt find anything which matches my req
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Old 06-26-2008
$ date --date="tomorrow"
Fri Jun 27 17:14:27 EDT 2008

Last edited by kknigga; 06-26-2008 at 06:25 PM..
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Old 06-26-2008
If you have ksh93
Code:
$ DATE=`date`
$ print $DATE
Thu Jun 26 19:30:56 EDT 2008
$ printf "%T\n" "$DATE + 1 day"
Fri Jun 27 19:30:56 EDT 2008
$

 
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