perl yesterday's date in mmddyyyy format

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Hi,

Below command is producing yesaterday's date in mmddyy format -

perl -e '@T=localtime\(time-86400\);printf\("%02d%02d%02d",$T[4]+1,$T[3],($T[5]+1900)%100)'

But i want the date in mmddyyyy format; plz help.

Thankx,
Rahul Bahulekar.

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got the answer -

perl -e '@T=localtime(time-86400);printf("%02d%02d%02d",$T[4]+1,$T[3],($T[5]+1900))'

just remove %100

thankx!!!

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Try:

perl -e '@T=localtime(time-86400);printf("%02d%02d%d",$T[4]+1,$T[3],$T[5]+1900)'