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Old 02-24-2010
getting previous day.
Hi,
i am developing a script for my project. In my script i need to check some conditions based upon some values. in that one value is the previous date. with the previous date i need to check and process some values. I have a function with me retrieve the yesterdays date.

But now i have a scenario that i need to check with the yesteday day alone. That is say for example today is Thu,i need to check one day before that is with Wed. i am not sure how to retrieve this Thu-1.

I am trying `date %a -1` but its not working.

Please help me in this.

Thanks,
Raju
# 2  
Old 02-24-2010
https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...rithmetic.html
# 3  
Old 02-25-2010
Try this,

Code:
date -d "1 day ago" | cut -d ' ' -f 1

# 4  
Old 02-25-2010
You can try this,

date +%a -d "1 day ago"

This will give the yesterday day name in three letter format.For ex,Wednesday as Wed.If you want full day name,use %A instead of %a.
# 5  
Old 02-25-2010
ksh93 include printf extension. Gnu date command include also epoc + calculation extensions. Some bsd date include -r option.
Ex. using ksh93
Code:
   printf "%T" now

More example to use printf and date calculation.

Or using gnu date command like
Code:
#!/someposixsh
epoc=$(date -u +%s)

echo $epoc
(( yesterday=epoc-86400 ))

datestr=$(date -d "1970-01-01  $epoc seconds"  )
echo  $datestr
datestr=$(date -d "1970-01-01  $epoc seconds" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' )
echo  $datestr
echo "yesterday:"
date -d "1970-01-01  $yesterday seconds" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

If using date, read your man date.
# 6  
Old 02-26-2010
MySQL
The following example used for current date from ago
Code:
        #date
        Tue Feb 23 14:32:14 IST 2010

        #date -d "1 day ago"
        Mon Feb 22 14:32:18 IST 2010

        #date -d "1 week ago"
        Tue Feb 16 14:32:24 IST 2010

        #date -d "1 month ago"
        Sat Jan 23 14:32:29 IST 2010

         #date -d "1 year ago"
        Mon Feb 23 14:32:35 IST 2009

The following example used for current date after
Code:
        #date
        Tue Feb 23 14:35:00 IST 2010

        #date -d "+1 day"
        Wed Feb 24 14:35:05 IST 2010

        #date -d "+1 week"
        Tue Mar  2 14:35:09 IST 2010

        #date -d "+1 month"
        Tue Mar 23 14:35:14 IST 2010

        #date -d "+1 year"
        Wed Feb 23 14:35:21 IST 2011

for more information read the date man page.
Last edited by ungalnanban; 03-09-2010 at 12:42 AM..
# 7  
Old 02-26-2010
YESTERDAY=`TZ=CST+24 date +%Y%m%d`
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