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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting want to get previous date from date command in ksh Post 302232150 by agn on Thursday 4th of September 2008 01:41:38 AM
Old 09-04-2008
Code:
$ date +%F
2008-09-04
$ date +%F -d '-1 day'
2008-09-03

 

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