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.
thx (3 Replies)
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:
Create a Bash script that will copy all the files and subdirectories in one directory to a newly created directory. You may name the receiving directory anything you like.... (4 Replies)
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,
`date` command will give the current days date.
Is there any command to get the previous day date?
I need the previous day value in my script.
Ahamed. (1 Reply)
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.
Thanks (7 Replies)
Hi Friend,
i am using OS
HP-UX vvftf320 B.11.11 U 9000/800 511076331 unlimited-user license
now i have used below command but it giving today's date. i need your help to get yesterdate. Please correct me.
date +"%d%m%Y%H%M%S" -d "1 days ago
Thanks in advance,
Jewel (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Jewel
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pmdate - display an offset date
SYNOPSIS
pmdate [ offset ... ] format
DESCRIPTION
pmdate displays the current date and/or time, with an optional offset.
An offset is specified with a leading sign (``+'' or ``-''), followed by an integer value, followed by one of the following ``scale'' spec-
ifiers;
S seconds
M minutes
H hours
d days
m months
y years
The output format follows the same rules as for date(1) and strftime(3).
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pmdate -7d %d%m%Y
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tion file, as described in pcp.conf(5).
SEE ALSO date(1), strftime(3), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).
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