sysdate -1 in unix

kskywr · #1 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007

I need to automate the creation of a file. It needs to have the date of the previous day. In sqlplus we use sysdate -1 but I checked the man page for date and didn't find a similar command. This is what I use for creating a file for the current date:

rciind`date '+%m%d%Y'`.txt

What do I need to change to get the date of the previous day?

reborg · #2 (**permalink**) 04-12-2007

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