subtracting a days from current date

Hi i am trying to subtract days from current date. For example todays date is 10/03/2006. If i subtract 2 days it should give 8/03/2006. I am also trying to find the access date of a file in dd/mm/yyyy format. Can any one please help in how to do this.

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