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Date: Advanced Usage of the Date Command
Introduction
The date command can be very useful for advanced date calculations.
Usage
- Calculates the date 2 weeks ago from Saturday in the specified format:
date -d '2 weeks ago Saturday' +%Y-%m-%d
- Unix alias for date command that lets you create timestamps in ISO 8601 format:
alias timestamp='date "+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S"'
Last updated 27 Nov 2009, 20:18 +0200.