Basic examples for the Linux date command
Basic examples for the Linux date command
Examples and resource links for the Linux date command.
I rarely ever use the date command, but when I need it I almost always struggle to get the right incantation. So, wrote a blog post for easy reference.
Do you use a cheatsheet as well?
the manpage has me covered tbh
I thought that was…
mandated
YyyYyYeeeaaaAaaAaaAhhHhHhhhHH
After a man date, I like to do a man touch and man mount.
Try the
tldrutil on linux.I'm addition to
tldrwhich someone else suggested, there's also thecheatcommand. It's pretty easy to add to it's cheat sheets, if you have custom commands, or want to keep a specific example. I've never kept a physical cheat sheet... They're just too inconvenient and my fingers are probably already at the keyboard.Saving this post in case I ever get a date.
LLMs do this pretty well. I've used them for date/time formatting strings across a number of languages.
dateis the command for setting the system date and time from the command line. Nothing to do with formatting, beyond the fact that it presumably applies system locale settings when echoing date-time info.$ whatis datedate (1) - print or set the system date and timedate +%Y-%m-%d