Get current date in bash

grj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 96

Is there a way to get the current date in bash?
Then is it possible to format it as yyyy-mm-dd?

Thanks,
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GRJ

gfunkmonk · Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2002 4:48 am Post subject:

Have a look at this:
http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/bashprompt/

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Or use Gentoo's own help here.
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ledents · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 7

just use de date command:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

ledents, well read. For some reason gfunkmonk and I seemed to think he wanted the date in his prompt.
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grj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jun 2002 Posts: 96

Thanks for the help. I got my script working to download my pictures from my Kodak DC290 using gphoto command line arguments. The scripts checks to see if
~/camera/images/yyyy-mm-dd exists. It it does not the directory is created. After the directory is found to exist or is created the image download to it.

One note: to get the 4 digit year use %Y instead of %y which returns a w digit year.

Thanks,
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Hope this helps!

GRJ