Unix - Invalid character in date/time specification

Question

I am trying to find last day of the month. Date in DDMMYYYY format.

#!/bin/bash

start_date=01092018

end_date=$(date +%m%Y -d "$start_date +1 month")
echo $end_date

Expected Result :30092018

But it gives below error : Invalid character in date/time specification. Usage :date [-u] [+Field Descriptors]

Aix!date doesn't know GNU extensions. You could use Perl for such calculations. Example: github.com/lzsiga/pldate perl pldate set 20180901 add-month 1 printf %m%Y — Lorinczy Zsigmond
– Lorinczy Zsigmond, Commented Dec 23, 2019 at 13:42

Romeo Ninov · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-24 12:29:10Z

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AIX date do not support -d. So you can't use constructions like date -d. For reference you can check AIX date man page

Nut you can try something in perl:

perl -MPOSIX -le '@x=localtime; if($x[4]!=0) {$x[4]++} else {$x[4]=11;$x[5]++};print strftime ("%Y-%m-%d", @x)'

answered Dec 24, 2019 at 12:29

Romeo Ninov

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