Date Range

With this command, we can generate a bunch of dates per selection, each selection will add one day/week/month/year to the current date.

To generate dates without multiple selections, we can add the x-arg option.

Commands

Command	Alias	Action
days	day	add one day per selection
weeks	week	add one week per selection
months	month	add a month per selection
end-of-month	eom, last-day-of-month, ldom	last date of month per selection
years	year	add one year per selection

Options

Option	Alias	Description
START_DATE		used as start date for our date ranges. If not given, the current date will be used instead
x10		generate 10 dates. Can be any positive number

Settings

"parse_date_formats": [
    "%d.%m.%Y"
],

parse_date_formats is used to parse the date from the Text Pastry command line. For supported date formats, please check out http://strftime.org/

"date_format": "%d.%m.%Y",

used to generate the date range. For supported date formats, please check out http://strftime.org/. For our convenience, we can set the date format-setting by calling the date-format command:

date-format %Y-%m-%d

Examples

Command:

days x5

Result:

14.12.2014
15.12.2014
16.12.2014
17.12.2014
18.12.2014

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Command:

days 22.07.2015 x10

Result:

22.07.2015
23.07.2015
24.07.2015
25.07.2015
26.07.2015
27.07.2015
28.07.2015
29.07.2015
30.07.2015
31.07.2015

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Command:

weeks

Result:

14.12.2014
21.12.2014
28.12.2014
04.01.2015
11.01.2015

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Command:

months

Result:

14.12.2014
14.01.2015
14.02.2015
14.03.2015
14.04.2015

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Command:

end-of-month

Result:

31.12.2014
31.01.2015
28.02.2015
31.03.2015
30.04.2015

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Command:

years

Result:

14.12.2014
14.12.2015
14.12.2016
14.12.2017
14.12.2018

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We can add a start date to date range commands:

weeks 14.03.2015

Result:

14.03.2015
21.03.2015
28.03.2015
04.04.2015
11.04.2015

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x-arg

The date range command supports the newly introduced x-arg! Lets create 30 dates:

days x30

14.12.2014
15.12.2014
16.12.2014
...
10.01.2015
11.01.2015
12.01.2015