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I tried this and it works for the most part, but if the date is 20090301, it displays 20090300.

YESTERDAY=$((`date +%Y%m%d` -1))

Wow, this is picky! :) That worked, thanks for your help!

Thanks, I am getting closer...

now it is putting 'date +%Y%m%d' in {DATE}, not the value 20090303.

Don't really understand what the "touch" does. I thought this would work, but it isn't...

Store the Date as follows:

DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d)

Then email it like this...
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First of all want to apologize for such a simple question. Very "new" to UNIX and have just taken a small intro class.

I need to pull back YYYYMMDD and store it in a field to be used later. I...