Unix shell Question

From: Yuval Arnon <Yuval.Arnon_at_wwfent.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:38:00 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0041BDAA.20020228133800@fatcity.com>

Hi,
Need help in Unix shell.
Is there a way to compute the previous date (similar to sysdate - 1 in SQL) using the date expression??

So if my date is 3/1/2002 I will get 2/28/20002.

TIA Yuval.

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