Previous date in UNIX

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

re: Previous date in UNIX

This is I got when I run few commands...
$date
Thu Jun 18 07:04:38 EDT 2009

$date -d "-1 day"
Wed Jun 17 07:04:46 EDT 2009

This should help you

re: Previous date in UNIX

This is how you get previous date.. :---)

newprd$ echo `date`
Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:30:19 BST
newprd$ echo `TZ=CST+24 date +%d/%m/%y`
06/07/09