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Bash format date append static time

Posted Dec 30, 2019 2019-12-30T22:10:00+02:00 by Rahul Chandna
Updated Aug 14, 2021 2021-08-14T14:23:34+02:00

Linux command to print current date and time

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$ date

Parameters to get output from date in a custom format

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$ date +'%m/%d/%Y'

To

  • append static time to the date
  • save it to a variable
  • echo the date time
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$ NOW="$(date +'%m/%d/%Y') 20:00:00"

$ echo $NOW

For more examples visit stackoverflow concatenate string variables in Bash

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