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Same as above but:<br />
YESTERDAY=$(date --date='1 day ago' +%m%d%Y)<br />

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Same as above but:
YESTERDAY=$(date --date='1 day ago' +%m%d%Y)


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Hello all, <br />
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I have a cron job that will be renaming some mysql tables daily to back them up..<br />
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I wanted to do this from a shell script but I'm not sure how to gate 'date' to show YESTERDAYS date (since the script is run at midnight)<br />
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YESTERDAY=$(date +%m%d%Y) &nbsp; - todays date just fine heh<br />
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Hello all, 

I have a cron job that will be renaming some mysql tables daily to back them up..

I wanted to do this from a shell script but I'm not sure how to gate 'date' to show YESTERDAYS date (since the script is run at midnight)


YESTERDAY=$(date +%m%d%Y)   - todays date just fine heh




Shell script to print out YESTERDAY's date: MMDDYYYY

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