Your Question: How Do I Increment a Date in Unix?

How do you increment a date in Unix shell script?

startdate=”$(date -d”$1″ +%s)”; What I need to do is iterate eight times, each time incrementing the epoch date by one day and then displaying it in the format mm-dd-yyyy.

How do you increment in Unix?

Using + and – Operators

The most simple way to increment/decrement a variable is by using the + and – operators. This method allows you increment/decrement the variable by any value you want.