Shell yesterday’s date

The date command in SH is pretty powerful. Here’s you can get yesterday’s date - something I find myself doing frequently for things like get data from an API for the last day, etc.

$ date +%Y-%m-%d --date=yesterday
2014-02-05
 
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Setting up Camus - LinkedIn’s Kafka to HDFS pipeline

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