[WBEL-users] date command

[Adrian Snyman]

On Monday 04 July 2005 13:19, Andrew Vong wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently using the following command -
> 
> date "+%d/%m/%Y" to get me the date in the following format 04/07/2005.
> 
> I am trying to set the %d (day) to 1 day before... so when I run --> date 
> "+%d/%m/%Y" <-- it should give me yesterday's date (i.e. 03/07/2005)
> 
> Can someone help show the way?
> 
> Thanks in advance. Appreciate it.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Andrew


Try:
date -d "-1 day" "+%d/%m/%Y"


Regards
Adrian 


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