On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:15:25PM +0800, sunhux G wrote: > I'm trying to get yesterday's date in YYYYMMDD format. > Anyone know if RHES 4.x has GNU date that allows > yesterday=$(date -d "-1 day" '+%Y%m%d') > Does this help? $ yesterday=$(date -d "-1 day" '+%Y%m%d') $ echo $yesterday 20110129 $ date Sun Jan 30 07:10:59 SAST 2011 $ cat /etc/issue CentOS release 4.8 (Final) Kernel \r on an \m $ date --version date (coreutils) 5.2.1 Written by David MacKenzie. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. $ which date /bin/date $ rpm -qf /bin/date coreutils-5.2.1-36.el4.centos $ -- Hugo Lombard -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
