- Hi folks,
yourprompt$ date
will display your current date.
But how we can format the output?
Like I need the output as 21st Jan, 2009.
So there is a technique for that.
yourprompt$ date '+FORMAT'
Note: You can replace the FORMAT with the following characters.
- %%
- a literal %
- %a
- locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
- %A
- locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)
- %b
- locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
- %B
- locale's full month name, variable length (January..December)
- %c
- locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)
- %C
- century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99]
- %d
- day of month (01..31)
- %D
- date (mm/dd/yy)
- %e
- day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)
- %F
- same as %Y-%m-%d
- %g
- the 2-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
- %G
- the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
- %h
- same as %b
- %H
- hour (00..23)
- %I
- hour (01..12)
- %j
- day of year (001..366)
- %k
- hour ( 0..23)
- %l
- hour ( 1..12)
- %m
- month (01..12)
- %M
- minute (00..59)
- %n
- a newline
- %N
- nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
- %p
- locale's upper case AM or PM indicator (blank in many locales)
- %P
- locale's lower case am or pm indicator (blank in many locales)
- %r
- time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
- %R
- time, 24-hour (hh:mm)
- %s
- seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension)
- %S
- second (00..60); the 60 is necessary to accommodate a leap second
- %t
- a horizontal tab
- %T
- time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
- %u
- day of week (1..7); 1 represents Monday
- %U
- week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
- %V
- week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
- %w
- day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday
- %W
- week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
- %x
- locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)
- %X
- locale's time representation (%H:%M:%S)
- %y
- last two digits of year (00..99)
- %Y
- year (1970...)
- %z
- RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)
- %Z
- time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable
For example:
yourprompt$ date '+%d/%m/%y'
will display 21/01/2009
Leave queries if you have any.
