[Linux-disciples] Dates backwards

[Stephen R Laniel]

There's a nice feature of date(1) under FreeBSD: you can
type things like 'date -v-1w' to display a date one week
before the present date. It doesn't look like date(1) under
Debian or Gentoo has caught up yet. What would you guys use
if you needed to stick "one week ago today" into a shell
script?

The FreeBSD manpage for date(1) is here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=date&sektion=1

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