Akim Demaille wrote:
I'm trying to find a means, given a week number, to find the date of
the Monday and Friday. I was wondering if I could use GNU date to do
that straightforwardly instead of having to program this.
Akim,
%u (numerical-day-of-week) is useful here
This should work
DATE="10 august 2007" # a random date
OFFSET=$(( $(date --date="${DATE}" +%u ) - 1))
date --date="$DATE $OFFSET days ago"
HTH,
Colin S. Miller
BTW,
The first week (before the week's start day),
can be week 0 in some systems.
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