Shell get yesterdays date

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mister_v
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Shell get yesterdays date

Post by mister_v »

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I trying to get yesterdays date using the command date.

I have the following command:

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date +"%A, %B %-d, %Y"
But that is for today's date.
chris
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Re: Shell get yesterdays date

Post by chris »

You can do this by adding --date="-1 day"

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date +"%A, %B %-d, %Y" --date="-1 day"
or even shorter

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date +"%A, %B %-d, %Y" -d yesterday
You can also get the day for tomorrows or work with months or week.

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date +"%A, %B %-d, %Y" -d tomorrow
date +"%A, %B %-d, %Y" 
date +"%A, %B %-d, %Y" -d "-1 month"
date +"%A, %B %-d, %Y" -d '3 weeks ago'
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