Re: date/getdate.y: Relative days

Akim Demaille wrote:
> I'm trying to find a means, given a week number, to
find the date of
> the Monday and Friday.  I was wondering if I could use
GNU date to do
> that straightforwardly instead of having to program
this.
> 

Akim,

%u (numerical-day-of-week) is useful here

This should work


DATE="10 august 2007"  # a random date
OFFSET=$(( $(date --date="$" +%u ) - 1))
date --date="$DATE $OFFSET days ago"

HTH,
Colin S. Miller



BTW,
The first week (before the week's start day),
can be week 0 in some systems.

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