On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:58:27PM +0000, Val Krem wrote: > So easy, I am just learning about bash scripting. > date -d 'next month' +%b%Y > What would happen in December 2016. Will it give me Jan2017?
Try It And See. imadev:~$ gdate -d 'December 15, 2016 +1 month' Sun Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2017 Just to be clear, the -d 'human readable stuff' option is specific to GNU date, and won't work on other systems. Also, the 'human readable stuff' part is NOT specified. There is no documentation for what is allowed there, and what is not. You have to figure it out by trial and error, and it may change between versions of GNU date.
