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1.1     ! root        1: .TH YESTERDAY 1
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: yesterday \- print file names from the dump
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B yesterday
        !             6: [
        !             7: .B -c
        !             8: ] [
        !             9: .I \-date
        !            10: ]
        !            11: .I files ...
        !            12: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            13: .I Yesterday
        !            14: prints the names of the
        !            15: .I files
        !            16: from the most recent dump.
        !            17: Since dumps are done early in the morning,
        !            18: yesterday's files are really in today's dump.
        !            19: For example, if today is March 17, 1992,
        !            20: .IP
        !            21: .EX
        !            22: yesterday /adm/users
        !            23: .EE
        !            24: .PP
        !            25: prints
        !            26: .IP
        !            27: .EX
        !            28: /n/dump/1992/0317/adm/users
        !            29: .EE
        !            30: .PP
        !            31: In fact, the implementation is to select the most recent dump in
        !            32: the current year, so the dump selected may not be from today.
        !            33: .PP
        !            34: With option
        !            35: .BR -c ,
        !            36: .I yesterday
        !            37: copies the dump file to the current directory.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: The
        !            40: .I date
        !            41: option selects other day's dumps, with a format of
        !            42: 2, 4, 6, or 8 digits of the form
        !            43: .IR dd ,
        !            44: .IR mmdd ,
        !            45: .IR yymmdd ,
        !            46: or
        !            47: .IR yyyymmdd .
        !            48: .PP
        !            49: .I Yesterday
        !            50: does not guarantee that the string it prints represents an existing file.
        !            51: .SH EXAMPLES
        !            52: .PP
        !            53: Back up to yesterday's MIPS binary of
        !            54: .BR vc :
        !            55: .IP
        !            56: .EX
        !            57: cd /mips/bin
        !            58: yesterday -c vc
        !            59: .EE
        !            60: .PP
        !            61: Temporarily back up to March 1's MIPS C library to see if a program
        !            62: runs correctly when loaded with it:
        !            63: .IP
        !            64: .EX
        !            65: bind `{yesterday -0301 /mips/lib/libc.a} /mips/lib/libc.a
        !            66: rm v.out
        !            67: mk
        !            68: v.out
        !            69: .EE
        !            70: .SH FILES
        !            71: .B /n/dump
        !            72: .SH SOURCE
        !            73: .B /rc/bin/yesterday
        !            74: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            75: .IR fs (4)
        !            76: .SH BUGS
        !            77: It's hard to use this command without singing.

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