Previous date in UNIX

Originally Posted by harshakusam

Hi All,

Could someone pls let me know how to get preiousday for the current date.

Y i require this because i my script runs it will genate reports and sent them via mail, and in subject to include date.

And the problem is when these reports failed if we run these reports next day the subect line will current day actually we are ruuning reports for previous day.

Could some one pls help me out from this...

Cheers
harsha