date --date='3 months ago' "+%b"
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 05:30:00AM +0000, Amit Karnik wrote:
hi
In shell Script...how do i get a month which was 3 months earlier to the present month......i.e Now its Jan ...How do i get Jan minus 3 which shuld return me.......Oct..... It shuld b in format of Jan..Feb..only...as i need to search a file by that name and then delete it......File Format is...***Jan_01..., ***Feb_01 and so on...So on Jan1st i need to delete a file which has name ***Oct_01 and this shuld go on for rest of the yr... Thanks in Advance
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