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To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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Subject: Re: Idea for date(1) improvement. 
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.53.0409081106290.51837@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>, "Bjo
ern A. Zeeb" writes:
>On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> 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"
>>
>> ?
>
>-w ? isn't it -v ?  date -v-2d ?

I meant -w as a more flexible complement to the very restricted
syntax of -v.

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