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Is this perl, or an sh script?<br />
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If it's an sh script: You might be more answers in the OS-&gt;Unix topic area, or maybe OS-&gt;Linux.<br />
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If it's a perl script, you could use the strftime to format the time<br />
See here for more info:<br />
<a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html" rel="ugc">http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html</a><br />

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Is this perl, or an sh script?

If it's an sh script: You might be more answers in the OS->Unix topic area, or maybe OS->Linux.

If it's a perl script, you could use the strftime to format the time
See here for more info:
http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html [http://perldoc.perl.org/POSIX.html]


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Ok. &nbsp;I need to delete this question and I will submit it under Unix SH scripting.<br />
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please delete this question and return the points.
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Ok.  I need to delete this question and I will submit it under Unix SH scripting.

please delete this question and return the points.

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Actually I have sh script which sets the following variable:<br />
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TDATE=`date +%Y%m%d`<br />
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We then use this variable to set another variable:<br />
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CSFILE=&quot;test$TDATE&quot;<br />
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I need help setting the TDATE variable to be yesterday's date.<br />
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This is very important, vendor switched when they send their file and it is always a day behind, example of a file they send would be: test20060706.txt<br />
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I am giving 500 points for this answer.
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Actually I have sh script which sets the following variable:

TDATE=`date +%Y%m%d`

We then use this variable to set another variable:

CSFILE="test$TDATE"

I need help setting the TDATE variable to be yesterday's date.

This is very important, vendor switched when they send their file and it is always a day behind, example of a file they send would be: test20060706.txt

I am giving 500 points for this answer.

setting date variable to be yesterday's date in Perl AIX

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