RE: Unix date ??

You can try following ..........
>>>>>>

typeset -i this_mon
this_mon=`date +%0m`
echo $this_mon
typeset -i prev_mon
prev_mon=$this_mon-1
echo $prev_mon
<<<<<<<<<<

HTH,
Rajesh
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 3:16 PM
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Hi all,

Unix...
My boss ask me to write script for house keeping last month files

what is the parameter to get system last month ? for example:

thismonth=`date ....

thismonth = thismonth - 1 is not working...

regards,

Sinardy

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