Paul Carroll paulcarroll
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Created
February 1, 2019 05:46
Copies a file to another file with yesterday's date - used for a rudimentary todo history tracker when I work
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| # Get yesterday's date (different between Mac and Linux) | |
| if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then | |
| yesterday=`date -v-1d +%F` | |
| else | |
| yesterday=$(date -d "yesterday 13:00" +'%Y%m%d') | |
| fi | |
| # Construct the filename | |
| dest=past-$yesterday.md |