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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 12:51:00 +0200
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Subject: Idea for date(1) improvement.
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I have sometimes needed to get the date of yesterday or last monday
and so on for creating filenames.

We have this very flexible code in at(1) and cvs(1) for specifying
time.

Anyone up for making it possible to say:

	date -w "2 days ago"

?


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