How can I calculate the date preceding a given date in unix?

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执笔经年 2021-01-21 16:30

I have two variables: X and Y.

The value of X will be a date given in the format mmddyy and I want to calculate the date preceding that date

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  • 2021-01-21 16:57

    I like Tcl for date arithmetic, even though it's clunky for shell one-liners. Using Tcl 8.5:

    x=091509
    y=$(printf 'puts [clock format [clock add [clock scan "%s" -format "%%m%%d%%y"] -1 day] -format "%%Y%%m%%d"]' "$x" | tclsh)
    
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  • 2021-01-21 17:02

    Since the -d option doesn't exists on MacOS X or FreeBSD, here is the answer for them

    Retrieving a date relative to current time

    date -v -1d
    

    For your question in particular, you'll need the -j and -f flags to use a specific date

    date -v -1d -j -f %m%d%y 091509 +%Y%m%d
    
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  • 2021-01-21 17:03

    date -d "yesterday"

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  • 2021-01-21 17:09
    ~$ date -d "20090101 -1 day"
    Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 CET 2008
    

    And if you want to retrieve the date in a custom format you just throw in some format strings.

    ~$ date -d "2009-09-15 -1 day" +%Y%m%d
    20090914
    

    As for your conversion you may use bash substring extraction (assuming you use bash of course). This also assumes that your input is consistent and "safe".

    X="091509"
    Y=`date -d "${X:4:2}${X:0:2}${X:2:2} -1 day" +%Y%m%d`
    echo $Y
    

    See http://www.walkernews.net/2007/06/03/date-arithmetic-in-linux-shell-scripts/

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