Day before yesterday's date

anand2308 · December 20, 2012, 1:41am

Hello All,

I am writing a script in Sun Solaris
I want the date for "day before yesterday", i got the yesterday's date by this command

TZ=GMT+24 date +%b" "%d

.
Please suggest me some code to get the date for day before yesterday

itkamaraj · December 20, 2012, 1:50am

 
$ DAY_BEFORE_YEST=`TZ="GMT+48" date +'%m/%d/%Y'`
$ echo $DAY_BEFORE_YEST
12/18/2012

ningy · December 20, 2012, 2:04am

perl -le 'print scalar localtime (time() - 48*60*60);' |awk '{print $2 ,$3}'

anand2308 · December 20, 2012, 2:11am

Thank You ningy and itkamaraj, It worked

oly_r · December 20, 2012, 9:15am

i just use Date command.

date +%Y%m%d -d '2 days ago'

you could even use your text

date +%Y%m%d -d 'day before yesterday'

(i just asked a question similar in the last week )

Scott · December 20, 2012, 9:34am

And in your question "in the last week" you were using CentOS, not Solaris

oly_r · December 20, 2012, 9:46am

And this was run on Solaris 10. I have Solaris 9 & 10, redhat and centos system (i don't do windows).

The 2 days ago option worked on each, though i do admit the day before yesterday wasn't liked on the all the systems so i should have left it out.