All,
I have a requirement to assign yesterday's date in to a var.
This should be compatible with all the months from Jan to Dec.
Appreciate your help regarding the same.
Cheers,
Nish.

This is not my script; it's one of the better ones i found a while back on comp.unix.shell when i needed this also:

#!/bin/ksh

set -A DAYS Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
set -A MONTHS Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

YESTERDAY=$((`date +%d` -1))
MONTH=`date +%m`
YEAR=`date +%Y`
NDAY=`date +%u`
WEEKDAY=${DAYS[`date +%u`]}

if [ $YESTERDAY -eq "0" ]
then
MONTH=$((MONTH-1))

if [ $MONTH -eq "0" ]
then
MONTH=12
YEAR=$((YEAR-1))
fi

set `cal $MONTH $YEAR`
shift $(($# - 1))
YESTERDAY=$1
fi

TMONTH=${MONTHS[MONTH]}
# uncomment next line for debugging
# echo $WEEKDAY $YESTERDAY $MONTH $TMONTH $YEAR
echo $YESTERDAY

-jim

Dear Jim,
Great !!!! Txs a Lot !
Nish.