previous day date display script

tmaxx · 04-19-2007, 11:17 PM

hi all

does anyone have a script which when executed displays the previous day date?

thanks in advance

druuna · 04-20-2007, 12:30 AM

Hi,

It's not a script, but this will fill a variable with yesterday's date:

YESTERDATE=`TZ=CST+24 date +%Y%m%d`

Shouldn't be to hard to implement that in a script

If the date layout is not to your liking, take a look at man date for other possibilities.

Hope this helps.

tmaxx · 04-20-2007, 12:50 AM

thank you sir...

rhoekstra · 04-20-2007, 01:20 AM

Or perhaps:

$ date --date="yesterday" +%Y%m%d