On Mon, 12 May 2008 08:07:00 +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:

> Hallo, William,
>
> Du meintest am 11.05.08:
>
>>>> i'm looking for a util which, given an integer argument N, can print
>>>> the date of the day N days ago. example:
>
>> [...]
>
>> :*) because the man page does not even mention fuzzy dates. And,
>> 'strings /bin/date' doesn't produce any such keywords. And, 'info date'
>> only tells me to use 'info date' for the full documentation, LOL.
>
> Try
>
> info date
> Node "Examples of date"

ITYM:
info coreutils
g Examples of date

;-)

>
> or (better readable)
>
> pinfo date
>
> You can find "pinfo" at "slacky.eu".
>
> Viele Gruesse
> Helmut

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ITYM:

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