getting todays date

2009-06-17T10:03:23-04:00

Since you are posting in Shell & Bouncer Help, I assume you are writing a shellscript?
In such case, that would somewhat depend on your shell. Most do provide the date binary, which generally supports formatting (see http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?date ).

Something like this should do the trick (bash-style, other shells may have different syntax):

Code:

somevar=`date +%m%d`

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:03 am

getting todays date

2009-06-17T05:42:24-04:00

How can I get todays date in format: mmdd

thanks

Statistics: Posted by pinkel — Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:42 am

egghelp/eggheads community

getting todays date

getting todays date