On 08-Oct-2003/08:50 -0400, Marvin Blackburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there anyway to use `date` to calculate yesterdays date.
>If not, is there any other way to do this easily?

  date -d yesterday
or
  date -d '1 day ago'


The latter syntax is more flexible. I often use it in scripts.

Tony
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