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Old 06-01-2004
Date functionality

Hi,
Could someone help me to get yesterday's date in MMDDYY format.
echo `date '+%m%d%y'`
is giving me today's date in the above format.

Thanks in advance for your help..
Suresh.
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Old 06-01-2004
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