Re: generate date sequences

[Colin S. Miller]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
> Colin S. Miller <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > for (( a=0 ; $a \< 10 ; a++ )) ;do date -d "5 april 2005 $a days";done
> > Tue Apr  5 00:00:00 BST 2005
> > [...]
>
>
> Nice trick, that '$a days' thing.
>
> The preamble could have been a bit shorter, though:
>
>  seq 10 | while read a; do date -d "5 april 2005 $a days"; done
>
> Regards,
> Andre'

Andre,

Thank you; I was not aware of the seq command.

However,
it is not necessary to use 'read' when xargs will do the same, giving

seq 0 10 | xargs -i date -5 "5 april 2005 {} days"

Is there a shorter form?


As I said before, I'm not sure if this is offically supported by GNU date.
What I suspect is happening is that  '-d "4 days" ' adds 4 days to date's
current time, which I previously set to 5 april.

Colin S. Miller

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