Monthly Archive: July 2013

How to create a ‘select all’ checkbox in javascript 0

How to create a ‘select all’ checkbox in javascript

For HTML Code:

<input type="checkbox" onClick="toggle(this)" />

<input type='checkbox' name='ss' value='one'  />
<input type='checkbox' name='ss' value='two'  />
<input type='checkbox' name='ss' value='three'  />

We use Javascript:

<script>
  function toggle(source) {
    checkboxes = document.getElementsByName('ss');
    for (var i = 0, n = checkboxes.length; i < n; i++) {
      checkboxes[i].checked = source.checked;
    }
  }
</script>

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How to get a previous date in bash (linux) 0

How to get a previous date in bash (linux)

Simply put

date -d '1 day ago' +'%Y-%m-%d'
# For multiple days
date -d '7 days ago' +'%Y-%m-%d'

If you wish to place in a shell script:

RMDATE=$(date -d '7 days ago' +'%Y_%m_%d')

will place for example ‘2013-07-01’ in the RMDATE variable which of course you can use like

echo $RMDATE