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Can any one guie me how to find yesterday's date (taking care of the leap years as well)in the format yymmdd using a shell script. Regards.
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The gnu version of the "date" command (as used in linux/cygwin) has this functionality built in already.
If you are using linux you can simply use
See man date for more details.
If you are using linux you can simply use
date --date=yesterday +%y%m%d
See man date for more details.
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Thanks Blater. It worked.
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Hey there,
If you're interested, just for kicks, here's the long convoluted way to do it
http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.co...to-remind.html
Cheers,
Mike
If you're interested, just for kicks, here's the long convoluted way to do it
http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.co...to-remind.html
Cheers,
Mike
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