Commande unix - date de la veille

#!/bin/sh

# ydate: A Bourne shell script that
# prints yestarday's date
# Output Form: Month Day Year
# From Focus on Unix: http://unix.about.com

# Set the current month day and year.
month=`date +%m`
day=`date +%d`
year=`date +%Y`

# Add 0 to month. This is a
# trick to make month an unpadded integer.
month=`expr $month + 0`

# Subtract one from the current day.
day=`expr $day - 1`

# If the day is 0 then determine the last
# day of the previous month.
if [ $day -eq 0 ]; then
  
  # Find the preivous month.
  month=`expr $month - 1`  

  # If the month is 0 then it is Dec 31 of
  # the previous year.
  if [ $month -eq 0 ]; then
    month=12
    day=31
    year=`expr $year - 1`  

  # If the month is not zero we need to find
  # the last day of the month.
  else
    case $month in
      1|3|5|7|8|10|12) day=31;;
      4|6|9|11) day=30;;
      2)
        if [ `expr $year % 4` -eq 0 ]; then
          if [ `expr $year % 400` -eq 0 ]; then
            day=29
          elif [ `expr $year % 100` -eq 0 ]; then
            day=28
          else
            day=29
          fi
        else
          day=28
        fi
      ;;
    esac
  fi
fi

# Print the month day and year.
echo $month $day $year
exit 0

date_hier=$(date --date '1 days ago' +%F) 
date_hier_jour=$(date --date '1days ago' +%d) 
date_hier_mois=$(date --date '1days ago' +%m) 
date_hier_annee=$(date --date '1 days ago' +%Y) 
date_lettre=$(date --date '1 days ago') 

echo La date en lettre = $date_lettre 
echo La date de hier m_d_Y = $date_hier 
echo Le jour de hier= $date_hier_jour 
echo Le mois de hier= $date_hier_mois 
echo L\'annee de hier= $date_hier_annee 

date -d '1 day ago'