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[ILUG] $yesterday

[ILUG] $yesterday

Baldwin_James at emc.com Baldwin_James at emc.com
Tue Oct 23 17:51:42 IST 2001


Thanks for showing me the GNU Carrot, but it dont help me in this case..I
know how naff the Sol date util is...! :P

Anyone know of a YESTERDAY binary hanging about either compiled or
compilable on Solaris ? 
;)


-----Original Message-----
From: Kenn Humborg [mailto:kenn at bluetree.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:30 PM
To: Baldwin_James at emc.com; ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] $yesterday


> All,
> 
> Without going OTT, can anyone think of a way of echoing out a $yesterday
> variable (i.e. yesterdays date! :P )?
> Has the date binary got some fancy footwork to do this already ? Running
> *cough* Solaris 2.6 :(

With GNU date:

$ date -d yesterday
Mon Oct 22 17:29:55 IST 2001
$

Later,
Kenn




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