Greetings to the -L,
 
I know that this is not an MPE question but I gather that there are
loads of e3000 sites out there that also have 9000's and other Unix
boxes.
 
I have been asked to take an existing Korn (ksh) script and remove the
need to manually edit some dates in it (today - 1 month, today - 1 day,
today + 1 day, today + 1 month, etc) by getting the shell to calculate
them itself.
 
All the methods I have currently found required a date command which
recognises the -d switch. Unfortunately our doesn't.
 
If I am unable to get the shell to do it then I'll have to write a small
program in C or C++ which will open a can of worms with the supplier of
the system.
 
Any suggestions (clean ones please) will be gratefully received.
 
regards,
 
Robert W.Mills
Business Systems Development Analyst
Group Information Systems & Technology
Pinnacle Entertainment
DDI: +44 (0)20 8309 3604 
 

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