How Many Days Ago Was That?

After doing my "how many days ago" calculation in my head once too many, I set out to find a way to let my computer do the work. After trying Java and C, I settled on this bash script:

[weiqi@gao] $ cat ~/bin/daysago
#!/bin/bash
#
# Usage: daysago [date]
#
bc <<<`date +%j`-`date -d $1 +%j`

[weiqi@gao] $ daysago 11/23
18

Can you name all the bash features used in this script?

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on December 11, 2004 11:21:33 PM CST #