[SunRescue] FreeBSD date and Solaris date commands

[oneiros]

Thus spake Ron Rosson (insane at oneinsane.net):

> I am still leaning new things with my ultra1 running solaris 2.8. My
> latest hangup is the date command.
> 
> On a FreeBSD box when I run:
>         date -v-1d +%m-%d-%Y
> I get:  
>         03-06-2001
> 
> On my Solaris 2.8 box it dont work. Basically I just need it to tell me
> what yesterdays date was.

Solaris's date doesn't have that functionality.  All it can do is display the
current date and format it with strftime(), or set the date.  BSD and GNU date
can do date calculations.  Your best route would be to compile BSD or GNU date
and pop it in /usr/local/bin.

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