How to set a variable to current date and date-1 in linux?

bash, date, linux

Solution

You can try:

#!/bin/bash
d=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
echo "$d"

EDIT: Changed y to Y for 4 digit date as per QuantumFool's comment.

Problem

I want to set the variable `date-today` to the current date, and `date_dir` to yesterday's date, both in the format `yyyy-mm-dd`. I am doing this: ``` #!/bin/bash d=`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S` echo $d ```

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