Ed:

see the nsr_getdate man page.  Networker can do this for you

nsrmm -S ssid -e "+ 365 days"

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--On Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:41 PM -0600 Ed Skolnik
<eskolnik AT INTERPUBLIC DOT COM> wrote:

| 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.
|
|
|
| Mminfo -q'client=something,level=full' -r'ssid,sscomp'  | while read ssid
| sscomp; do
|
|
|
|    ~~~~~~~~~ calc new date `~~~~~~~~
|
| nsrmm -S $ssid -e ${newdate}
|
| done
|
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| Ed
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