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Created September 7, 2010 07:12
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Determine yesterday's date (yesterdate) in ruby or shell (linux and OSX)
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yesterdate-linux.sh
> date -d-1day
Mon Sep 6 09:08:43 CEST 2010
> date -d-1day +%Y%m
201009
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yesterdate-osx.sh
> date -v-1d
ma 6 sep 2010 09:10:00 CEST
> date -v-1d +%Y%m
201009
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yesterdate.rb
require 'date'
puts (Date.today-1).strftime("%Y%m")
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