On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 10:38:11AM +0200, Christophe Simon wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> You can use this form, which is a little simpler:
> 
>     date -d 'now -1 day' '+%Y_%m_%d'

Nope, this is a GNU extension.

        -Otto

> 
> Regards
> 
> Christophe
> 
> Le 04/09/18 à 07:54, Robert Klein a écrit :
> > Hi Max,
> > 
> > this works for me:
> > 
> > date -r $(( $(date +%s) - 1 * 24 * 60 * 60 )) +%Y_%m_%d
> > 
> > 
> > Best regards
> > Robert
> > 
> > On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 07:45:05 +0200
> > Max Power <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi guys,
> > > How can I do to get yesterday's date?
> > > I need for create a backup directory.
> > > On Linux:
> > > yesterday=backup_$(date -d "yesterday" '+%Y_%m_%d')
> > > mkdir -p /raid1/backup/$yesterday
> > > 
> > > Thanks for reply.
> > > 
> > 
> > 

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