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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2001 12:51:02 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Questions to all script wizards out there...
Message-ID:  <20011224185102.GB37641@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011224192919.A89314@tisys.org>
References:  <20011224192919.A89314@tisys.org>

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In the last episode (Dec 24), Nils Holland said:
> So in order to make wget fetch today's program, I'd run it like this:
> 
> wget -options http://www.dradio.de/dlf/vorschau/2001/12/24.html
> 
> That's the theory, but how do I tell my shell script to do that? I
> have two problems, one of which is probably easy to solve, while the
> other is a little tough:
> 
> 1) The shell script would have to have a look at today's date and
> construct the appropriate URL. It would probably have to obtain the
.. 
> 2) As I said, I'd like to get seven days fetched in advance. An easy way to
> do that would be to simply loop multiple times, always incrementing <day>

The 'date' command will do both.

$ date +"%Y/%m/%d"
2001/12/24

$ date -v +8d +"%Y/%m/%d"
2002/01/01

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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