I wanted to retrieve yesterdays date with a format of YYYYMM
This was solved in FreeBSD like this:
date -v-1d "+%Y%m"
(SuSE) Linux doesn’t know the -v option
The same thing in Linux could be done like this:
date -d yesterday "+%Y%m"
Why the difference?
My less command of my FreeBSD installation doesn’t show the ansi colors embedded in the Rails log file. Well it does shows the codes, but I don’t want to see those.
I found a simple solution for this:
export LESS='--RAW-CONTROL-CHARS'
Put the code above in the ~/.bashrc/ file and less will finally show the colors…!