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Old 05-01-2006
Date display
Hello,

Is there any easy way to write a script to display the date for the previous day? I have a script which queries a sybase database, and pull the data for certain time period. I'd like to know how you can get the day for previous day, something like: date - 1!

Thanks,

Frank
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Old 05-01-2006
Check this thread..
https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/13731-getting-yesterday-date.html?s=
you will find many options..
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Old 05-01-2006
Ambikesh, thank you. You saved my day:

perl -e 'print localtime(time() - 86400) . "\n" '

The above Perl command did the job.
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