Clarification on '1 days ago' in date command [Found answer, posted within]
I know the topic of getting yesterday's date has been covered ad nauseum, but I just want to be clear on something.
I recently started using the command
Code:
date --date='1 days ago' '+%m/%d/%y'
to get yesterday's date and it's been working great. I just want to be certain that it is going to account for the 1st day of the month and jump back to the last day of last month.
Prior to this I'd been using a 12 step case command to check if the date was the 1st day of the month or not, and it would be great if I could just use this one line instead.
Thanks.
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Never mind. I set the clock back to the first on my laptop and tested it (and it worked)
Code:
(11:18:18\[D@DeCoBox15)
[~]$ date
Tue Jun 1 11:18:19 JDT 2010
(11:18:19\[D@DeCoBox15)
[~]$ date --date='1 days ago' '+%m/%d/%y'
05/31/10
(11:18:23\[D@DeCoBox15)
[~]$
Maybe silly question... but since you are looking for the first day of the month, why not use the cron scheduler with a job that executes only on first day of the month to jump back to last day of previous month?
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