# prints yestarday's date # Output form: Month Day Year # From Focus on Unix: http://unix.about.com
# Set the current month day and year.
month=`date +%m` day=`date +%d` year=`date +%Y`
# Add 0 to month. This is a
# trick to make month an unpadded integer. month=`expr $month + 0`
# Subtract one from the current day.
day=`expr $day - 1`
# If the day is 0 then determine the last
# day of the previous month. if [ $day -eq 0 ]; then
# Find the preivous month.
month=`expr $month - 1`
# If the month is 0 then it is Dec 31 of
# the previous year. if [ $month -eq 0 ]; then month=12 day=31 year=`expr $year - 1`
# If the month is not zero we need to find
# the last day of the month. else case $month in 1|3|5|7|8|10|12) day=31;; 4|6|9|11) day=30;; 2) if [ `expr $year % 4` -eq 0 ]; then if [ `expr $year % 400` -eq 0 ]; then day=29 elif [ `expr $year % 100` -eq 0 ]; then day=28 else day=29 fi else day=28 fi ;; esac fi fi