Re: Proposal: Optional libsafe add-on?

[John Pybus <john.pybus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck Wolber wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
>
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> > > How else do you do date math in your shell scripts?
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> I didn't say math, I said "date math". They're two *VERY* different
> things. Calculating a date is a non-trivial thing unless you're a savant.

But not one that cal is particularly helpful with.  All that cal can do 
is print a tabulated calander for a particular month or year.  I 
personally make use of gnu 'date' in scripts.

Yours,

John