> Basically what I these are supposed to do is to set to dates, the first for
> the first day of the previous month and the second to set the last day of
> the previous month.
>
> Here is what I have been using:
>
> DAYS=`date +%e`
> let "XDAYS=DAYS -1"
> FIRSTDAY=`date --date="$XDAYS days 1 month ago" +%d%m%y`
>

XDAYS="-$(($DAYS-1))"
ie: use a negative number for the days..

Chris-
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