On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:59:04PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Is there any nice tool to operate dates at the console? > thanks! It's perhaps a bit too heavy, but I always use Perl's DateManip for that: http://search.cpan.org/~sbeck/DateManip-5.44/Manip.pod I had to write a script a while back that computed "one week before today"; DateManip's way of writing that is quite literate and quite easy to code: LASTINTERVAL=`perl -e "use Date::Manip; print UnixDate(DateCalc(\"now\",\"-1 week\"), \"%d/%b/%Y\")"` In general, I should note that "perl -e" is super-awesome. The alternative, using just the command-line 'date' tool, is too cumbersome. Perl's actually the easiest here, I've found. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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