Re: Out of topic -Unx question

my unix sysadmin was kind enough to give me following few monts ago. Works great and can be used for creating any date in dd-mon-yy format

DAY=`perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); print strftime("%d-%b-%y", localtime(time() - 86400)) . "\n" ;'`

HTH
Shaleen
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> Hi All,
> I want to get previous date from today's date.Is there any cmd
for
> this.
>
> Thanks
> Manoj
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