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From: Brian Jones <cbjones@baynetworks.com>
To: "'Eric Rehm'" <rehm@singingfish.com>,
        cygwin <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: Bash and $(date)
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:03:54 -0500
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date -d '1 day ago' +%d

For the number representing yesterday's day of the month.  See date --help
for more information.  Of course if cygwin always came with man pages the
answer would be RTFM.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Rehm [mailto:rehm@singingfish.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 1999 10:41 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: FW: Bash and $(date)
>
>
> Is there an easy way to get *yesterday's* date using the date command
> in a bash script?
>
> I know how to parse the date, use integer variables, etc.,
> but I'd rather
> not have to put in all the year, month, day logic into a script.
>
> /eric rehm
>
>
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