Ready to be published? LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc. Do you have something to say to the Linux community?
by Mitch Frazier
In part II of this series of articles on doing date math from
the command line we want to try to solve a problem
we noted in part I: passing the date command
a date specification something like "the first Monday after some date".