[cups.general] Option for delete historical jobs

[ALi]

yes i have done it with date -d "1 day ago" +"%a\ %b\ %d"

and grep -v .... if i have time i will post it the next day

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:57 PM, pipitas <pipitas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 11:31 AM, ALi wrote:
>
>> i am going to make an script for putting in cron and cancelling the
>> jobs that are queued for more than this days .....
>> but i am not sure about how to compare dates .....
>
>
> Use the GNU "date" command. It has a very convenient way to specify
> dates. Example output:
>
>  kp at kpt33:~$  date -d "3 days ago"
>      Tue Dec  7 20:50:29 CET 2010
>
>  kp at kpt33:~$  date -d "2 years ago 3 months ago 14 days ago"
>      Fri Oct  6 21:56:09 CEST 2006
>
>  kp at kpuntu:~$ date -d "4 year ago 2 month ago 4 day ago" "+%Y--%m--%d"
>      2006--10--06
>
> Note that the use of plural is optional.
>
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