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Old 08-27-2019
Problem with using sed command

I have tried to print the commands which are executed today from history file using sed command by putting the range but i am unable to get it.can anyone help with this is script.I am pasting the script below that i have tried .
Code:
today=$(date "+%F")
echo $today
yest=$(date --date="yesterday"  +"%F")
echo $yest
history | sed -n "/ $yest/,/$today/p" > /home/pest.txt[/ICODE]

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Old 08-27-2019
What be the output of your history command? Does it have any entries matching $yest and / or $today? Does any account for the space in front of $yest?
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Old 08-27-2019
Try:
Code:
history | sed -n '/ '"$yest"'/,/ '"$today"'/p'


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