Re: Get yesterday's date on the terminal, mac os x

• Subject: Re: Get yesterday's date on the terminal, mac os x
• From: "Marshall Eubanks" <email@hidden>
• Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:32:11 -0400
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On Fri, 2 Sep 2005 16:27:26 +0800
 Louie Miranda <email@hidden> wrote:
> Tried this command to get the yeterday's date.
> 
> date -v -1d +"%Y%m%d"
> 

This script works  in tcsh

[TME-Laptop:~] tme% more yesterday 
#  Find the date yesterday
set sec=`date +%s`
set sec=`expr $sec - 86400`
date -r $sec
#

Regards
Marshall


> But did not work..
> 
> date: illegal option -- v
> > usage: date [-nu] [-r seconds] [+format]
> > date [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]hh]mm[.ss]
> > 
> 
> How can i get yesterday's date?
> 
> -- 
> Louie Miranda
> http://www.axishift.com -- under development

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