LKBEN11024: Howto show the time and date under linux and eventually format it as you wish
Symptom
You need to reformat the time for some bash scripting
Cause
none
Solution
To show the date and time you can use the date command.
date
Wed Jun 18 22:30:10 CEST 2008
This is nice but sometimes you just want the date or time in another format. In this case you can use the date command with a format string.
This just shows the year:
date +'%Y'
2008
Here we get the year and the month and place a dot in between.
date +'%Y.%m'
2008.06
Here we use everything:
date +'This is the date: %Y.%m.%d and now the time: %H:%M:%S'
This is the date: 2008.06.18 and now the time: 22:34:08
As you see you have plenty of flexibility.
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