ctime date

[Sergey S. Ropchan]

On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:50 -0700, Evan Sayer wrote:
> Hello-
> Does anyone know how to get the ctime(3) format of the date in a script 
> (i.e without actually writing a C program to return it).
> -Thanks.
#!/bin/sh

#get current date
DATE=`date "+%d%m%y"`

echo $DATE;

you can play with specs: %D, %Y ... etc

read man date

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