Creating a dated directory

I'm a scripting and PowerShell newbie. I have a daily requirement to create a
directory with yesterday's date. I wrote a function to calculate yesterday's
date and put it in the variable, $yesterday. I can't figure out how to
extract the date as a string and insert it in the new-item cmdlet to create
the directory. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Terry Edwards

Hello Terry,

Something like this will work:

$date = ( get-date ).AddDays(-1).ToString('yyyyMMdd')
mkdir "c:\$date"

Thanks, Karl. It worked. How do you find out about the ".AddDays" and
".ToString" functions?
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Terry Edwards


"Karl Mitschke" wrote:

Hello Terry,

$date = ( get-date )
$date |gm