Useful date command options


		Useful date command options The date command displays the date and the time of day. The standard output of the date command looks like this: $ date Sat Sep 25 14:38:35 PDT 1999 The date command lets you use options to display pieces of the date and time information in a selected format. If you want to display only the day of the month, you would use this command: $ date +%e 25 Start the format specification with a plus sign. Follow this with one or more percent-sign-marked letters, which indicate which piece of the date you want. The `%e` represents the day of the month. `%b` represents the 3-letter abbreviation for the month: $ date +%b Sep To display the month and the day of the month, use the command below. $ date +%b-%e Sep-25 The dash in this command is literal. You can insert characters between the percent-sign-marked pieces of the date and they will be displayed literally in your output: Test out these date command options by logging into your UNIX account and typing them in at the shell prompt.