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Re: find yesterday date using date command

Wow, thank you everyone for the responses.
The below command will give yesterday date. I tried to truncate the result down to the date only with:
do shell script "date +%a $(date -r $(( $(date +%s) - 86400 )))"
Doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something or is that even possible with 3 variables inside "date" command?

Again thank you very much for all the responses,

On Jan 1, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

The OP did ask for how to do this with the "date command"; assuming
that the shell command date(1) was actually intended, the result may
be achieved thus:

do shell script "date -r $(( $(date +%s) - 86400 ))"

Although if you have the GNU coreutils package installed (e.g. in
/sw/bin/ via fink, or in /opt/local/bin via MacPorts), it's a little
easier:

do shell script "/sw/bin/date -d yesterday"
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