date

Show date and arbitrarily formatted date:

• Show current date and time

  date

  Fri Jul 13 14:37:50 HKT 2001

• Show day of the year

  date '+%j'

  194

• Show 4-digit year

  date '+%Y'

  2001

• Show date of format "mm/dd/yy"

  date '+%D'

  07/13/01

• Show full weekday name

  date '+%A'

  Friday

• Show abbreviated month name

  date '+%b'

  Jul

• Show a custom formatted date: dd-Month-yyyy (www)

  date '+%e-%B-%Y (%a)'

  13-July-2001 (Fri)