Hi Max, this works for me:
date -r $(( $(date +%s) - 1 * 24 * 60 * 60 )) +%Y_%m_%d Best regards Robert On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 07:45:05 +0200 Max Power <open...@cpnetserver.net> wrote: > Hi guys, > How can I do to get yesterday's date? > I need for create a backup directory. > On Linux: > yesterday=backup_$(date -d "yesterday" '+%Y_%m_%d') > mkdir -p /raid1/backup/$yesterday > > Thanks for reply. >