[Wylug-discuss] Copy files by date

[Smylers]

Towle, William writes:

> > running date with the %F format just gives the date without a time,
> > so is interpreted as the start of today. But you still need a way of
> > passing yesterday's date to the date command
> 
>   If it's available, the '--date' argument will happily calculate relative
> times suitably.

FreeBSD's date command doesn't have --date, so I suspect OS X's doesn't
either, unfortunately.

Maybe simply installing Gnu tools would be the best way round this?

Smylers