How to show date one day ago (yesterdays date) in Linux?


Here are some commands:


YESTERDAY


[user@server ~]# date -d "1 day ago" "+%Y-%m-%d"
2015-02-22

TODAY


[user@server ~]# date "+%Y-%m-%d"
2015-02-23

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[user@server ~]# date
Mon Feb 23 11:01:31 UTC 2015



[user@server ~]# date --date="2 days ago"
Sat Feb 21 11:02:37 UTC 2015