Re: generate date sequences

[Colin S. Miller]

mnikhil@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> With gnu date, how can I get the list of dates continuosly between a
> specific period say for example apr 2,2005 to july 31,2005 in the
> format %Y/%m/%d
>
> command should be in the form of
> ./script -d1 04/02/2005 -d2 06/31/2005
> 2005/04/02
> 2005/04/03
> 2005/04/04
> ..
> ..
> ..
> 2005/07/29
> 2005/07/30/
> 2005/07/30
>
> Help is very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Nikhil


for (( a=0 ; $a \< 10 ; a++ )) ;do date -d "5 april 2005 $a days";done
Tue Apr  5 00:00:00 BST 2005
Wed Apr  6 00:00:00 BST 2005
Thu Apr  7 00:00:00 BST 2005
Fri Apr  8 00:00:00 BST 2005
Sat Apr  9 00:00:00 BST 2005
Sun Apr 10 00:00:00 BST 2005
Mon Apr 11 00:00:00 BST 2005
Tue Apr 12 00:00:00 BST 2005
Wed Apr 13 00:00:00 BST 2005
Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 BST 2005


finding the correct +"FORMAT" string is left as an exerise for the 
interested reader. It will be in the man page.
Although it works, it may be use feature rather than actual design of
GNU date.

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