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Obtaining yesterday's date

I'm trying to get yesterday's date in YYYYMMDD format.

Anyone know if RHES 4.x has GNU date that allows
yesterday=$(date -d "-1 day" '+%Y%m%d')

& if there's no GNU date, how do we go about obtaining it?

Thanks

Sun
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Obtaining yesterday's date

On 30Jan2011 12:54, sunhux G <sunhux@gmail.com> wrote:
| I'm trying to get yesterday's date in YYYYMMDD format.
|
| Anyone know if RHES 4.x has GNU date that allows
| yesterday=$(date -d "-1 day" '+%Y%m%d')

Yes, it does.

| & if there's no GNU date, how do we go about obtaining it?

Off the many mirror sites?
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