Re: date -1 question

Gnu date has a rich method of reporting dates. It's in the coreutils
package in the IBM AIX Toolbox:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/date.html. You
also get the added benefit of several other useful binaries.



/opt/freeware/bin/date --date="yesterday"

Wed Jul 26 09:50:34 PDT 2006

/opt/freeware/bin/date

Thu Jul 27 09:50:36 PDT 2006





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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Mark Schlechte
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:16 AM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: date -1 question



I'm using smbclient in a script to get a file from a windows server
share.

The format of the file is filenamemmddyy.txt so I'm using get
filename`date '+%m%d%y'`.txt but my problem is the file I want to get
was created yesterday.



So I'm wondering how get yesterdays file based on ctime or somehow 'date
-1' etc.?



Mark


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