You should probably ask your question on the mvs-oe list: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=MVS-OE&H=VM.MARIST.EDU
I don't know how to do this with a shell command, I think that you would have write a program. If your system has IBM Ported Tools perl, then that would work (google "perl date arithmetic"). I was thinking that another path might be to write a shell script in REXX and use the Unix syscalls. But the one you really need, mktime(), isn't listed in the "Using REXX with Unix System Services". Pity, that would have been quite doable. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Uwe Oswald <uwe.osw...@zit-consulting.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I dont know if this is the right forum but I hope someone could help > anyway. I want to subtract "one day" from the actual date with one USS unix > command. > > The actual date I get via "date +%Y%m%d" (for example 20130314), but "date > +%Y%m%d-1" or "...yesterday" don’t work. I have tried everything without > success. Does anybody have a tip for me? It must be achieved within one > command not more. > > Thx > Uwe > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
