Linux and Unix date command tutorial with examples

Command “date” is used to display the date of the system.
To see the current date type the command “ date” on the terminal as shown in below

output

The above command will display current day, date, month, year and time as shown above.

Option:
date command can also be used with format specified .
Each format is preceded by + symbol and followed by % operator and format described as a single character.
We want to see only current month use format +%m. as shown below.

output

output is month 01

We want to see only currant month name use format +%h. as show below.

output

output is month January

We can also combine both command as:

output

output is month 01 is January

Other options of date command

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