In a unix shell, how to get yesterday's date into a variable?

Question

I\'ve got a shell script which does the following to store the current day\'s date in a variable \'dt\':

date \"+%a %d/%m/%Y\" | read dt
echo ${dt}
         


        

Answer 1

$var=$TZ;
TZ=$TZ+24;
date;
TZ=$var;

Will get you yesterday in AIX and set back the TZ variable back to original