Getting yesterday's date in shell script

prasperl · February 28, 2011, 5:01pm

Im in EST, and im using the command

CurrentDate=`TZ="EST+24" date +'%y%m%d'`

to get the yesterday's date.

Does this work perfectly for the boundary conditions of month end or year end(leap year) etc ?

justlooks · February 28, 2011, 8:42pm

yes it works fine, and i perfer to this

$ date -d '1 day ago'
Mon Feb 28 09:39:56 CST 2011
$ date
Tue Mar  1 09:39:58 CST 2011

Ygor · February 28, 2011, 8:57pm

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