date of 7 days ago

[Dan Lund]

Okay, I'm going to answer my own question it seems.

date --date='7 days ago'

On 12/30/05, Dan Lund <situationalawareness at gmail.com> wrote:
> Quick question, been thinking about this all day today.
> Whats a nice quick way to find out what the date was 7 days ago?
> (one that takes into account that today could be the 3rd of January,
> or April 2nd, or...)
> I'm looking for a way to find the date 7 days ago so I can create a
> hard-link to a directory to enable our backup software to backup my
> sunday backups to tape by looking at a static link that changes every
> sunday by the OS.
> It's brain dead and doesn't want to do anything more than archive-bit
> style backups....
>
> --Dan
> --
> To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so
> many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -
> because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too
> cowardly to exercise it.  The virtues which cloak these faults are
> called patience and forbearance.
> Friedrich Nietzsche
>


--
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so
many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -
because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too
cowardly to exercise it.  The virtues which cloak these faults are
called patience and forbearance.
Friedrich Nietzsche