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to get a formatted date command, just append a + followed by format denotations
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to get a formatted date command, just append a + followed by format denotations. Just type in what characters you want to divide the parameters by. Dash, dot, ect...
  
 
just give me the year!
 
just give me the year!

Revision as of 04:01, 2 August 2013

to get a formatted date command, just append a + followed by format denotations. Just type in what characters you want to divide the parameters by. Dash, dot, ect...

just give me the year!

# date +%Y

year, month, day...

# date +%Y-%m-%d                                                                                                        ~
2013-08-01

just give me the time!

# date +%H.%M.%S                                                                                                        ~
23.00.20