date -d "yesterday" works for me.
CJK On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:00, Greg Brown wrote: > I need an easy way to figure out the date for "yesterday" in a script. > This is easy enough to do with Perl but I can't use Perl for this > script. > > To get the seconds from Jan 1, 1970 I use the following command: > > date +%s > > I can then do some math to the output (subtracting (24 * 60 * 60)) to > return yesterday's date but is there an easy way to translate the > corresponding string of seconds back to a human readable date? The > date command doesn't seen to do this for me, at least not that I can > see. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html -- Chris Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
