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Getting a Date in Bash

Posted by Shabana Mukhtar on

You can use the

date

command to get the current date.

Example

To get the date in YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS format:

datetime=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')

Output

2022-10-10 11:30:30

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