[Remind-Fans] Can remind "count" time?

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In general, you can use dpkg-query to find out what files an installed dep
package provides:

    $ dpkg-query -L dateutils
    ...
    /usr/bin/dateutils.dadd
    /usr/bin/dateutils.dconv
    /usr/bin/dateutils.ddiff
    /usr/bin/dateutils.dgrep
    /usr/bin/dateutils.dround
    ...

So it looks like Debian installs the binaries with a special prefix.

Cheers,

Sector11 <sector11sr71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome Larry thank you ...
> 
> If not one problem another.
> Dateutils is installed but cannot find ddiff ????
> -------------------
>    $ apt list -a --installed dateutils
> Listing... Done
> dateutils/stable,now 0.4.3-1 amd64 [installed]
> 
>    $ ddiff 2020-02-19 2042-02-29 -f '%yy %ww %dd'
> bash: ddiff: command not found
> 
> Thank you will ask questions in my Linux Forum
> Bruce
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:12:52 +0000
> Larry Hynes via Remind-fans <remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Dianne Skoll <dianne at skoll.ca> wrote:
> > > On 2020-02-18 09:36, Sector11 wrote:
> > >   
> > > > Bob (will be) 47 in 3m 6d
> > > > Christmas (in) 5m 16d
> > > > Debian 11 (in) 3y 5m 18d  
> > > 
> > > Remind does not have a built-in way to express a duration as X
> > > years, Y months and Z days.  In general, there's no way to express a
> > > time interval that way unless you know the duration in days and the
> > > starting point (or equivalently, the ending point.)  
> > 
> > OT, but of possible help to the OP, I think ddiff(1) from
> > dateutils[0] will do what's required e.g., the command:
> > 
> > 	ddiff today 2042-02-29 -f '%yy %ww %dd'
> > 
> > yields the result:
> > 
> > 	22y 1w 2d
> > 
> > It would probably be easy enough to get remind to RUN a suitable
> > script or command, or incorporate it with remind's output in some
> > way.
> > 
> > $ cat test.rem
> > REM Feb 19 MSG Test
> > 
> > $ cat test.sh
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > 
> > remind ~/test.rem
> > 
> > echo "Bob will be 47 in $(ddiff today 2042-02-29 -f '%yy %ww %dd')"
> > 
> > $ sh test.sh
> > 
> > Reminders for Wednesday, 19th February, 2020 (today):
> > 
> > Test
> > 
> > Bob will be 47 in 22y 1w 2d
> > 
> > [0]: https://www.fresse.org/dateutils/
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