From: Brian Scanlan (bscanlan at domain irish-times.com)
Date: Tue 23 Oct 2001 - 18:04:39 IST
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:25:30PM -0400, Baldwin_James at domain emc.com wrote:
> 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 :(
These are your choices:
* GNU date! Haha, bet you wish you were on Linux, Solaris luser! :)
* Perl! Write some Perl to do it. Perl ships with Solaris 8 these
days...
* Some C! Yep, some C can do it too. So can loads of languages that are
compilable or interpretable. You get the idea. You probably want to
avoid these routes. :)
* Some shell scripting involving cal! You've already done this.
You might come across some suggestions to do some messing with LOCALE
settings to get yesterdays date - avoid this as it can lead to confusing
problems.
Brian.
-- Brian Scanlan, Systems Administrator. Irish Times New Media - http://www.ireland.com
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