In regard to: [Networker] Does any one have some UNIX scripts that can...:

>Does any one have some UNIX scripts that can calculate dates in the future?
>
>For example In want to change the retention of some savesets to be  the
>"save set's completion time" plus 1 year.

Get GNU `date' and use that in a shell script.  Or use perl's multitude of
time and date modules to do the same thing.

The "plus 1 year" turns out to be pretty darn easy, in this case:

        mon_num=`date +%m`
        day_num=`date +%d`
        curr_year=`date +%Y`
        next_year=`expr "$curr_year" + 1`
        year_date="$mon_num/$day_num/$next_year"

Re-order the string if you're using NetWorker in a locale that uses a
different convention.

Tim


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