Re: test the file date

[Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>]

Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
 > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Stephen Samuel wrote:

 >>Note that it takes a bit more magic to  properly come up with
 >>a date string for yesterday... I can think of a perl script
 >>that could do it:
 >>-----------------------
 >>#!/usr/bin/perl
 >>die "Usage: $0 number_of_days_ago\n"
 >>$days_ago=$ARGV[0];
 >>( $sec, $min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year ) = localtime(time-$days_ago*3600*24);
 >>printf "%02d%02d%02d\n", $year % 100 , $mon+1, $mday;
 >>-----------------------
 >
 > 	Try using gdate(date) like so .
 > 	date "+%y%m%d" --date="1 days ago"

Yay! they've modularized the date-pareing functions of 'at'!

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