Linux/UNIX Easy date manipulation with yest

Posted by nixcraft on Oct 13, 2006 1:01 AM EDT
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Sometime it is necessary to run a command or script on the last day of a month. There is old good hack that will decide whether tomorrow is the first day of the next month. All these years I was using *dirty shell script hacks* to create my own date manipulation utilities for backups and other admin task. Thanks to this project no more dirty work. yest is highly recommended tool for all seasoned UNIX admin.

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Is this utility at all useful? rht 9 1,489 Oct 13, 2006 11:46 AM

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