if you have GNU date and i understood you correctly
$ date +%Y:%m:%d -d "yesterday" 2009:11:09 or
$ date +%Y:%m:%d -d "1 day ago" 2009:11:09 unix - Get the date (a day before current time) in Bash
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If you have BSD (OSX) date you can do it like this:
date -j -v-1d Wed Dec 14 15:34:14 CET 2011 Or if you want to do date calculations on an arbitrary date:
date -j -v-1d -f "%Y-%m-%d" "2011-09-01" "+%Y-%m-%d" 2011-08-31 72
date --date='-1 day' 64
MAC OSX
For yesterday's date:
date -v-1d +%F where 1d defines current day minus 1 day. Similarly,
date -v-1w +%F - for previous week date
date -v-1m +%F - for previous month date
IF YOU HAVE GNU DATE,
date --date="1 day ago" More info: https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-get-yesterdays-tomorrows-date.html
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Well this is a late answer,but this seems to work!!
YESTERDAY=`TZ=GMT+24 date +%d-%m-%Y`; echo $YESTERDAY;