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        How can I get the date of yesterday and return in format
"ddmmyy"? It is easy to get the date of today(`date`), but how about
yesterday...

        Thanks

Chi-Chung

Jeff S.*son

Chung>       How can I get the date of yesterday and return in format
Chung> "ddmmyy"? It is easy to get the date of today(`date`), but how about
Chung> yesterday...

man date

(GNU date, preferably.)

-- Vincent

Quote:>Hi, Everybody,
>    How can I get the date of yesterday and return in format
>"ddmmyy"? It is easy to get the date of today(`date`), but how about
>yesterday...

29=24 + hours behind GMT (5 in my case)
varies for cst/cdt
this purportedly works on IRIX, OSF, Solaris, but not HP.

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Quote:>> man date
>> (GNU date, preferably.)
>> -- Vincent

Quoted from the GNU date manpage:

EXAMPLES
       To print the date of the day before yesterday

              date --date 2 days ago

       To  print  the  date  of  the day three months and one day
       hence

              date --date 3 months 1 day

-- Vincent