I have a date being passed into a shell script and have to add a month to that. for eg:
passed_date=2017-06-01
i need to add 1 month to it :
converted_date=2017-07-01
How can i achieve this in a shell script. I tried converting date to seconds since epoch and then adding 1 month like:
date +%s -d 20170601 -d "+1 month"
and then converting seconds back to yyyy-mm-dd by
date -d@$(date +%s -d 20170601 -d "+1 month") +%Y-%m-%d
but its basically adding 1 month to current system date