well now,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/week$ rm -r *;for d in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7; do mkdir `date
-v+${d}d +%A`; done
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/week$ ls
Friday Monday Saturday Sunday
Thursday Tuesday Wednesday
works on systems from Freebsd 4.11 to 6.1
the disappearance of the -v option from other forms of date seems
counterproductive.
On 7/6/06, Patrick R. Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
larry price wrote:
> mkdir $(for d in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do eval "date -v+${d}d +%A";done)
>
> challenge to the perl monks; do the same thing in fewer characters...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux lusitania 2.6.15-23-server #1 SMP Tue May 23 15:10:35 UTC 2006
i686 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ( export d=1 ; date -v+${d}d +%A )
date: invalid option -- v
Try `date --help' for more information.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
--
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
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