The date
command allows us to display the current date and time.
$ date
Sun May 26 01:16:25 +08 2019
Most importantly, we can format the date and time using specifications from strftime
. Now, assume we want a format like 26/5
.
$ date '+%d/%m'
26/05
Notice that %m
yielded 05
instead of 5
. This is because the values for %m
are 01 - 30
. So, to remove the leading zero, we need to do %-m
. The same goes for %-d
.
$ date '+%-d/%-m'
26/5