I frequently find myself needing to do quick date calculations in order to make scripts run when I want them to or how I want them to. Usually Date::Calc is just a bit too heavily, especially if it’s something as simple as a BASH script. As it happens, date is quite a powerful tool for some command line fu.
For example, to find the first and last day of last month:
FIRST_DOLM=`date -d "-1 month -$(($(date +%d)-1)) days" "+%Y-%m-%d"`
LAST_DOLM=`date -d "-$(date +%d) days" "+%Y-%m-%d"`
LAST_DOLM=`date -d "-$(date +%d) days" "+%Y-%m-%d"`
You can do the same thing using the date command on a mac with a slightly different set of switches:
FIRST_DOLM=`/bin/date -v1d -v-1m "+%Y-%m-%d"`
LAST_DOLM=`/bin/date -v31d -v-1m "+%Y-%m-%d"`
LAST_DOLM=`/bin/date -v31d -v-1m "+%Y-%m-%d"`
Both of these will produce the same results:
2009-06-01
2009-06-30
2009-06-30
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