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?
Thanks! (1 Reply)
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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LEARN ABOUT PLAN9
yesterday
YESTERDAY(1) General Commands Manual YESTERDAY(1)NAME
yesterday - print file names from the dump
SYNOPSIS
yesterday [ -c ] [ -date ] files ...
DESCRIPTION
Yesterday prints the names of the files from the most recent dump. Since dumps are done early in the morning, yesterday's files are really
in today's dump. For example, if today is March 17, 1992,
yesterday /adm/users
prints
/n/dump/1992/0317/adm/users
In fact, the implementation is to select the most recent dump in the current year, so the dump selected may not be from today.
With option -c, yesterday copies the dump file to the current directory.
The date option selects other day's dumps, with a format of 2, 4, 6, or 8 digits of the form dd, mmdd, yymmdd, or yyyymmdd.
Yesterday does not guarantee that the string it prints represents an existing file.
EXAMPLES
Back up to yesterday's MIPS binary of vc:
cd /mips/bin
yesterday -c vc
Temporarily back up to March 1's MIPS C library to see if a program runs correctly when loaded with it:
bind `{yesterday -0301 /mips/lib/libc.a} /mips/lib/libc.a
rm v.out
mk
v.out
FILES
/n/dump
SOURCE
/rc/bin/yesterday
SEE ALSO fs(4)BUGS
It's hard to use this command without singing.
YESTERDAY(1)