Bash script to get x days from current date.
Get yesterday's date, 2 days ago or any desired date prior from the current date.
Here's the script with comment on each line:
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#!/bin/sh
xdate1=$(date -d "-1 day" +"%Y%m%d")
echo $xdate1
#will return yesterday's date
#Output sample:
#20141001
xdate2=$(date -d "-2 day" +"%Y%b%d")
echo $xdate2
#will return 2 days before the current date
#Output sample:
#2014Sep30
#below is just an example on how to cut the variable into year, month and day of the month
#if xdate1 has the value of -20141001
xcutDate1=${xdate1:7:2}
#will return 01
#will return the date of the month
#if xdate1 has the value of -2014Oct01
xcutDateMonth2=${xdate2:4:3}
#will return Oct
#will return month
#if xdate1 has the value of -2014Oct01
xcutYear1=${$xdate1:0:4}
#will return 2014
#will return the year
echo $xcutYear1 $xcutDateMonth2
#will display the year and the month
#xToday will return todays date
xToday=$(date +"%Y%m%d")
echo $xToday
#will return: 20141124
#The month return range from (1 to 12 equivalent to Jan-Dec)
xxToday=$(date +"%Y%b%d")
echo $xxToday
#will return 2014Nov24
#The month is written as 3 letter abbreviation (Jan to Dec)
Here's the script without the comments:
//===============================
#!/bin/sh
xdate1=$(date -d "-1 day" +"%Y%m%d")
echo $xdate1
xdate2=$(date -d "-2 day" +"%Y%b%d")
echo $xdate2
xcutDate1=${xdate1:7:2}
echo $xdate1
xcutDateMonth2=${xdate2:4:3}
xcutYear1=${$xdate1:0:4}
echo $xcutYear1 $xcutDateMonth2
xToday=$(date +"%Y%m%d")
echo $xToday
xxToday=$(date +"%Y%b%d")
echo $xxToday
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Cheers!!! Hope it helps..
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