How to loop through dates using Bash?

Question

I have such bash script:

array=( \'2015-01-01\', \'2015-01-02\' )

for i in \"${array[@]}\"
do
    python /home/user/executeJobs.py {i} &> /home/user/         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue and I tried some of the above answers, maybe they are ok, but none of those answers fixed on what I was trying to do, using macOS.

I was trying to iterate over dates in the past, and the following is what worked for me:

#!/bin/bash

# Get the machine date
newDate=$(date '+%m-%d-%y')

# Set a counter variable
counter=1 

# Increase the counter to get back in time
while [ "$newDate" != 06-01-18 ]; do
  echo $newDate
  newDate=$(date -v -${counter}d '+%m-%d-%y')
  counter=$((counter + 1))
done

Hope it helps.