For GNU date, what's wrong with:
with you format also specified? If you lack GNU date, get a copy at a trusted source. Or, you can search here for my time utility tm2tm.c, which does the same sort of things.
Hello, using date, we can easily get today's date
$ date +%y-%m-%d
06-12-08
is it possible for me to get yesterday's date using 'date', if not, is there any quick and easy way to do that?
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I am not using GNU nor BSD. On AIX, how do you return yesterday in the format of i.e. "May 09" with a space.
# `TZ=y380 date +%h""%d`
>> May09
# `TZ=y380 date +%h" "%d`
>> May
I appreciate your help in advance.
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I haven't been using linux very long( and when I say that its only been about 1 week for me) I was told to do the following:
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I am currently running the following Korn shell script which works fine:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
count=`db2 -x "select count(*) from schema.tablename"`
echo "count"
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I was playing to find a simple way to get yesterday's date, and came up with this (on an AIX 5.2 box):
$ date
Thu Feb 19 11:21:26 EST 2009
$ echo $TZ
EST5EDT
$ yesterday=`TZ=$(date +%Z)+24 date`
$ echo $yesterday
Wed Feb 18 16:21:52 GMT 2009
Why it is converted to GMT instead of... (2 Replies)
HI All,
I am trying so long to find the yesterday's date to run a script but i failed
kinldy share the command to find yesterday's date in ksh
i tried with
date --date='1 day ago'
but it displaying error
your help will highly apeerciated.
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hi guys
i want to know how can i insert in a variable yesterday for example :
today=`date +%Y%m%d`
yesterday =???
thanks a lot
Please use CODE tags as required by forum rules! (4 Replies)
HI Team,
I am trying to create a shell script to generate a yesterday and today report to compare and email in daily basis. can you please help me on the same.
#!/bin/bash
#Author: *******************
#Description: This script will return the following set of system information:
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Discussion started by: Mi4304
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)