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Re: shell scripts for date calcs
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:16:08 +0200
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At 17:51 03.08.98 -0400, Greg wrote:
>Here's a challenge: I was asked how to calculate the date five days from
>now in the shell from the command line, without using awk or perl. Sorry
>to bring this up, since we just visited CI date routines...

Too sad that COBOL isn't allowed in this contest (even if it would
proably satisfy the MPE, Unix, NT availability requirement easily).

Otherwise I'd probably try something based on FUNCTION INTEGER_OF_DATE,
ADD x TO y and FUNCTION DATE_OF_INTEGER (using $CONTROL POST85) ...

;-) Lars

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