I think the existing date command could have also given you what you want:
date -j -v -99d +"%Y%m%d"
> On Mar 21, 2020, at 12:59 AM, @lbutlr wrote:
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> This might be useful to someone even though it is only tangentially related
> to BBEdit. I spent quite a bit of time (let’s
On 21 Mar 2020, at 06:24, Rod Buchanan wrote:
> date -j -v -99d +"%Y%m%d”
That’s interesting, I’ve never seen that syntax for the date command.
It’s less readable, but doesn't require gdate to be installed.
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My guess it is from macOS' BSD heritage. Definitely not what I'm used to on
our Linux boxes, or what I remember (been a while) on AIX.
> On Mar 21, 2020, at 4:11 PM, @lbutlr wrote:
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> On 21 Mar 2020, at 06:24, Rod Buchanan wrote:
>> date -j -v -99d +"%Y%m%d”
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> That’s interesting,
