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Old 12-20-2011
Yeah, I realize that simply doing a minus 1 on a date wont always work, but I am glad that I figured out the formatting section, etc and got it to populate into my nawk command. Now I can wax-on, wax-off on the date part (i.e. if its the first day of the year or the first day of the month...what if the previous month had 30 days vs 31, etc).

Thanks again, so so much.

Happy Holidays!
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Old 12-20-2011
since you have nawk, you might have timestamp commands, which let you convert the date into epoch seconds. Then you subtract 60*60*24 seconds to go back one day, then convert it back.
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