Re: date -1 question

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:15:34AM -0600, Mark Schlechte wrote:

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

Hi Mark

there are few tips in shell or in perl
look at www.shelldorado.com for shell methods
actually it change timezone offset to calculate date representation

hope this helps






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