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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Yesterday in UNIX Post 302935222 by DGPickett on Friday 13th of February 2015 01:38:23 PM
Old 02-13-2015
For GNU date, what's wrong with:
Code:
date -d 'yesterday'

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.
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