Hello Mark, Might try :
date "+(your favorite format)" --date="1 day ago"
Hth, JimL
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Mark A. Swope wrote:
> Sorry if this isn't the correct group for this...
> I'm trying to write a short script that is going to be run as
> a cron job. In it I want to create a file that is named something
> like "filenameYYYYMMDD.txt" I can do this just fine.
>
> However, in the script, I'd like to do a diff with the same file
> that was created the day before and I'm having trouble figuring out
> how to do that.
>
> Can anyone give me an example or a pointer to a good example?
>
> Many thanks and kindest regards,
> Mark Swope
>
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