Re: Future date

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:58:27PM +, Val Krem wrote: > So easy, I am just learning about bash scripting. > date -d 'next month' +%b%Y > What would happen in December 2016. Will it give me Jan2017? Try It And See. imadev:~$ gdate -d 'December 15, 2016 +1 month' Sun Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2017

Re: Future date

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Val Krem 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 ' '

Re: Future date

Thank you very much! So easy, I am just learning about bash scripting. date -d 'next month' +%b%Y What would happen in December 2016. Will it give me Jan2017? Val! On Sunday, January 24, 2016 5:31 PM, Dave Rutherford wrote: On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Val