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# 15  
Old 01-21-2019
Code:
date: illegal option -- -
Usage: date [-u] [+format]
       date [-u] [mmddhhmm[[cc]yy]]
       date [-a [-]sss.fff]

that is the error returned after I run the code
Code:
awk -v t="$(date --date="-30days" +%Y-%m-%d)"-F "" '$1 < t' myname.dat

on Unix ksh93
# 16  
Old 01-21-2019
There is an option in ksh to change the behaviour of ksh to accept latest posix ( or some ksh93 if not all... but no ways for me to test no more HP-UX...) e.g.
Code:
 UNIX95= ps -e -o pid,comm,pcpu|more

So you can always try UNIX95=... and your options, I suggest you have a look at the man pages as I cant having no more access...
# 17  
Old 01-21-2019
If you have perl there's my general purpose date script which is a GNU-date-alike which supports date math.
# 18  
Old 01-21-2019
What output do you get from the following commands when typed into a terminal window running ksh93:
Code:
ksh93 --version
ksh --version
date
printf '%(%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)T\n' "30 days ago"

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# 19  
Old 01-21-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
If one were to create a sample input file named myname.dat containing:
Code:
2018-12-24'0 days ago
2018-12-17'7 days ago
2018-12-10'14 days ago
2018-12-03'21 days ago
2018-11-26'28 days ago
2018-11-25'29 days ago
2018-11-24'30 days ago
2018-11-23'31 days ago
2018-11-22'32 days ago
2018-11-21'33 days ago
2018-11-20'34 days ago
2018-11-19'35 days ago
2018-11-12'42 days ago
2018-11-05'49 days ago

and one were to create a utility named now-30days from the C source file now-30days.c:
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

#define SecondsPerDay ((time_t)24 * 60 * 60)

int main(void) {
    time_t        Target = time(NULL) - 30 * SecondsPerDay;
    char        TargetString[16];
    struct tm    *Target_tm = localtime(&Target);

    strftime(TargetString, sizeof(TargetString), "%Y-%m-%d", Target_tm);
    printf("%s\n", TargetString);
}

using the command:
Code:
make now-30days

and moving the resulting utility into a directory named in your $PATH environment variable, then the awk command:
Code:
awk -v t="$(now-30days)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat

if run in the directory containing myname.dat might produce the output:
Code:
2018-11-23'31 days ago
2018-11-22'32 days ago
2018-11-21'33 days ago
2018-11-20'34 days ago
2018-11-19'35 days ago
2018-11-12'42 days ago
2018-11-05'49 days ago

if that command were run on December 24, 2018 (like I did here a few minutes ago).

Is this what you were trying to do?

I don't believe there is anything in this that is not available on all UNIX (including HP-UX), BSD, and Linux systems. It should do some error checking on the returns from localtime(), printf(), and strftime(), but this might give you a starting point for whatever you're trying to do.
These time functions also exist in perl:
Code:
now_minus_30_days=$(perl -le 'use POSIX; print strftime ("%Y-%m-%d", localtime (time-30*24*60*60))')
awk -v t="$now_minus_30_days" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat

# 20  
Old 01-21-2019
This is a method longhand, but I suspect it is not fully POSIX compliant.
OSX 10.14.1, default bash terminal.
Code:
Last login: Mon Jan 21 20:27:49 on ttys000
AMIGA:amiga~> less_days=30
AMIGA:amiga~> day_secs=$(( 24*60*60 ))
AMIGA:amiga~> DATE=$( date -r $(( $( date +%s )-( ${less_days}*${day_secs} ) )) )
AMIGA:amiga~> echo "${DATE}"
Sat 22 Dec 2018 20:33:03 GMT
AMIGA:amiga~> _

# 21  
Old 01-21-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
This is a method longhand, but I suspect it is not fully POSIX compliant.
OSX 10.14.1, default bash terminal.
Code:
Last login: Mon Jan 21 20:27:49 on ttys000
AMIGA:amiga~> less_days=30
AMIGA:amiga~> day_secs=$(( 24*60*60 ))
AMIGA:amiga~> DATE=$( date -r $(( $( date +%s )-( ${less_days}*${day_secs} ) )) )
AMIGA:amiga~> echo "${DATE}"
Sat 22 Dec 2018 20:33:03 GMT
AMIGA:amiga~> _

Hi wisecracker,
You suspected correctly. The POSIX date utility does not have a -r option and the POSIX date utility does not have a %s format specifier. There are plans to add the %s format specifier in the next revision of the standard. So far, no one has requested adding date -r to the standard.

With standard implementations of awk, you can get the number of seconds since the Epoch (i.e. midnight at the start of January 1, 1970 GMT) using the command:
Code:
awk 'BEGIN{print srand(srand())}'

The perl code that Corona688 suggested in post #17 in this thread is probably the best bet on HP-UX, but, of course, perl isn't in the standard either. Nonetheless, perl is almost surely available for HP-UX from HP even though it isn't standard.

And, kmarcus, I apologize for post #18. I had already asked that question before in post #2 a month ago and you answered it in post #3. Smilie
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