Questions tagged [date]
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How do I change the year in Unix?
I've looked at the man page for "date" and I can't figure out how to change the year. I know there is some string you need to create to describe the date format but how do I use that?

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execute bash script on last thursday of every month
Actually i have a bash script file and i want to execute it on the last thursday of every month please help me to find out the proper solution of that problem using bash scripting.

pawan
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linux + change/edit file without effecting on file date
I want to edit some file in my linux for example
ls -ltr /etc/some_file
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Jul 1 2010 sysstat
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echo "Server101_IP=187.0.98.4" >> /etc/some_file
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I expect to get the following date:
ls -ltr…

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"date" returning a month as a 3-char word
At the moment I call date this way:
date '+%Y %m %d'
# ==> 2017 12 01
How should I adjust it so that it return a month in the 3-char format? Like this:
date '+%Y %m %d'
# ==> 2017 dec 01

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