Tech Notes » format http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes Miscellaneous technology examples and notes Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes http://ryan-nitz/favicon.ico Tech Notes Format The Date Command In Bash http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes/2008/12/23/format-the-date-command-in-bash/ http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes/2008/12/23/format-the-date-command-in-bash/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:13:13 +0000 Ryan http://leisuremech.com/?p=96 Formatting the date output in bash is simple:

date + "%Y-%m-%d";

An example of assigning to a variable and using:

now=`date + "%Y-%m-%d"`;
cp /etc/hosts ~/hosts_${now};

For more information, see the manual.

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