How to use the date command to display yesterday's date

by Devin Yang
(This article was automatically translated.)

Published - 8 years ago ( Updated - 8 years ago )

The command is different on MacOS or Linux, but can achieve the same effect.
Let's see how to display yesterday's date with the date command.

On MacOS, we pass the following command:

date -v -1d +'%Y-%m-%d'

On Linux:

date -d 'yesterday' +'%Y-%m-%d'

Tags: linux cli

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