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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Getting sysdate - 2 by an unix command Post 5966 by LivinFree on Monday 27th of August 2001 11:53:57 PM
Old 08-28-2001

Here is one way:


#!/usr/bin/sh
_day=`date +%d`
_month=`date +%m`
_year=`date +%y`
newday=`expr $_day - 2`
echo "Two days ago was $_month/$newday/$_year "


I know the GNU date provides an easier way, but this is more portable...

your to_char function is up to you :P
 

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