Variable not formatting correctly

[cmackowski]

I need to make a variable to the previous day to grep items from /var/adm/messages. The command works fine from prompt. Once you turn it into variable, the formatting is wrong.


bash-2.05$ /usr/bin/perl -e 'print substr(localtime(time-86400), 4, 6),"\n";'
Dec 9 <<<Correct, with two spaces between Dec and 9<<<
bash-2.05$ YESTERDAY=`/usr/bin/perl -e 'print substr(localtime(time-86400), 4, 6),"\n";'`
bash-2.05$ echo $YESTERDAY
Dec 9 <<<incorrect<<<


Any Ideas??
-Chris

 

[hoinz]

try this:
echo "$YESTERDAY"
hth