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From: cd5@fulla.ecmwf.co.uk (Mike Connally)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Q: How can I get yesterday's date?
Date: 16 Aug 1994 09:13:47 GMT
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In article <Pine.3.89.9408160216.A15886-0100000@worf.uwsp.edu>, pzuge@worf.uwsp.edu (Peter Zuge) writes:
|> I am using BSD/386 unix:
|>
|> I need to create a script that will run at a certain time everyday
|> "getting" ( via ftp ) a file with yesterday's date.
No help to you, I'm afraid, but for designers of future
shells, this is yet another thing which should be addressed.
For example, this is how easy it is to do in the NOS/VE
command language, SCL:
FUNCTION $yesterday
VAR
one_day : time_increment = 0-0-1
yesterday : date_time = $date_time($date) - one_day
VAREND
EXIT function WITH yesterday
FUNCEND $yesterday
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