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Old 07-22-2008
BMDan BMDan is offline
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How about:
Code:
$ date -d "yesterday" +"%b %d %Y"
Jul 21 2008
Last edited by BMDan; 07-23-2008 at 11:16 AM.. Reason: Misread which month encoding you wanted