On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Val Krem <valk...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get a variable that combines the next month(Feb) and
current year (2016) from the current date
[...]
> temp_date=$(date | awk -F ' ' '{print $2,$6}' | tr -d ' ')
Wow, that's overkill. You don't need the -F ' ' options to awk, since
that's the default. You don't need tr to remove the space because
awk will happily not print one if you omit the comma.
And you don't need awk in the first place because date will handle
the desired output directly if you just ask it to.
> I got Jan2016.
> but I want this "Feb2016" next month and current year. How do I do that?
>
> Well at the end of the year, I will have another problem ( ie., to change
it to next year)
date -d 'next month' +%b%Y
Note, I'm not sure that's robust if you call it on, say, the 31st of the
month
if the next month doesn't have 31 days. It might give you two months from
now.
Read the man page for date for further enlightenment.
