advanced code snippet search

We Recommend

bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users
bash Cookbook teaches shell scripting the way Unix masters practice the craft. It presents a variety of recipes and tricks for all levels of shell programmers so that anyone can become a proficient user of the most common Unix shell -- the bash shell -- and cygwin or other popular Unix emulation packages.

Posted By

Caliban on 07/22/08


Tagged


Versions (?)


Define current datetime in a variable

Published in: Bash 

Plain TextExpand 
  1. b$ current_datetime=$(date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S')
  2. b$ echo $current_datetime
  3. 20080722_162914

Report this snippet 

You need to login to post a comment.