{"id":6822,"date":"2016-05-29T16:15:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T08:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6822"},"modified":"2016-05-29T16:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T08:15:05","slug":"datetime-in-a-unix-shell-how-to-get-yesterdays-date-into-a-variable-stack-overflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/29\/datetime-in-a-unix-shell-how-to-get-yesterdays-date-into-a-variable-stack-overflow\/","title":{"rendered":"datetime – In a unix shell, how to get yesterday's date into a variable? – Stack Overflow"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a unix shell, how to get yesterday’s date into a variable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nYou can use GNU date command as shown below<\/strong><\/p>\n

Getting Date In the Past
\nTo get yesterday and earlier day in the past use string day ago:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

date –date=’yesterday’
\ndate –date=’1 day ago’
\ndate –date=’10 day ago’
\ndate –date=’10 week ago’
\ndate –date=’10 month ago’
\ndate –date=’10 year ago’<\/p>\n

Getting Date In the Future
\nTo get tomorrow and day after tomorrow (tomorrow+N) use day word to get date in the future as follows:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

date –date=’tomorrow’
\ndate –date=’1 day’
\ndate –date=’10 day’
\ndate –date=’10 week’
\ndate –date=’10 month’
\ndate –date=’10 year’\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Source: datetime – In a unix shell, how to get yesterday’s date into a variable? – Stack Overflow<\/a><\/em>
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\nI basically google everything when making a shell script for linux. \u00a0Blame projects with component that require windows stuff which has helped me forget what I used to know about shell scripting
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\nHere is a way of using GNU date which is fortunately present in the linux installed in the oracle servers where our weblogic application servers are installed.
\nThis was used in a CRON job that had to look at a file that is stored in a directory which is formatted with yesterday’s date <YYYYMMDD>.
\nanother useful stackoverflow link regarding the date command<\/a>.
\nHere is the link\u00a0that help me format the command in a CRON job<\/a>
\nThe secret is that %<\/strong> have to be escaped with \\<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a unix shell, how to get yesterday’s date into a variable? You can use GNU date command as shown below Getting Date In the Past To get yesterday and earlier day in the past use string day ago: date –date=’yesterday’ date –date=’1 day ago’ date –date=’10 day ago’ date –date=’10 week ago’ date –date=’10 … <\/p>\n

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