How to get next date for a given date?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello,

I need to get next date of a given date using korn shell script.

for example:

given date is 20101024
so need to have 20101025

Please suggest.

Thanks !!

2

if you have GNU date

 
 
$ date -d "20101024 next day" +%Y%m%d
20101025
$ date -d "20101031  next day" +%Y%m%d
20101101
3 
date -d "20101024 next day" +%Y%m%d
date: illegal option -- d
usage:  date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]
        date [-u] [+format]
        date -a [-]sss[.fff]

:frowning:

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its SunOS 5.10

4

http://www.unix.com/answers-frequently-asked-questions/13785-yesterdays-date-date-arithmetic.html