date
datedate
date with optional + format$ date +"%a %X"
filenames
this can be useful for creating filenames in batch files#!/bin/sh file=$(date +%y%m%d).dat tar cvzf $file.tgz $file
file modification date (-r)
you can optionally choose ISO 8601 format with or without hours, mins and seconds$ date --iso-8601 -r x.x 2008-04-07 $ date --iso-8601=minutes -r x.x 2008-04-07T10:02+0100 $ date --iso-8601=seconds -r x.x 2008-04-07T10:02:56+0100
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