The original purpose (long since accomplished) was to create a directory containing directories named after each day of the week.
We've wandered off into low-key OS advocacy for the original free unix and arcana about implementations of obscure utilities. On 7/6/06, Jason LaPier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of larry price > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:20 AM > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] shell evilness > > 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. If I understand correctly what you're trying to do: $ date Thu Jul 6 14:17:48 PDT 2006 $ date -d "today + 1 day" Fri Jul 7 14:17:56 PDT 2006 $ date +%A Thursday $ date -d "today + 1 day" +%A Friday That help? - Jason > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > Jason LaPier Network Manager TACS / WRRC / NPSO University of Oregon _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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