bash how to get yesterday's date
Answer
Date command has d parameter, that displays time described after d parameter:
date -d yesterday '+%Y-%m-%d'%Y means year, %m means month, and %d means day. You can change formatting if you want:
date -d yesterday '+%Y:%m:%d'What if you want get several days, for example day before 5 days?
date +%Y-%m-%d -d "5 day ago"Would you take yesterday date to variable?
YESTERDAY=`date -d yesterday '+%Y-%m-%d'`
echo $YESTERDAY
Alternative way is using hours:
date -d "24 hours ago" '+%Y-%m-%d'Another way:
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