date command

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to get a formatted date command, just append a + followed by format denotations

just give me the year!

# date +%Y

year, month, day...

# date +%Y-%m-%d                                                                                                        ~
2013-08-01

just give me the time!

# date +%H.%M.%S                                                                                                        ~
23.00.20

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