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How can you display today's date in a shell script in the form YYYYMMDD? Thanks!?

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How can you display today's date in a shell script in the form YYYYMMDD? Thanks!?

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  1. man date just wants to date you..


  2. date +%Y%m%d

    Note the capital "Y", and lower-case "m" and "d".

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  3. man date will show you the formatting options, you are looking for %Y (full year 4 digit) %m (number of month) and (%d) day of the month.
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