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Terminal - Commands using date - 147 results
mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)
2009-04-25 14:16:45
User: thebodzio
Functions: date mkdir
Tags: alias date mkdir
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Create directory named after current date

Not a discovery but a useful one nontheless.

In the above example date format is 'yyyymmdd'. For other possible formats see 'man date'.

This command can be also very convenient when aliased to some meaningful name:

alias mkdd='mkdir $(date +%Y%m%d)'
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date -r foo
2009-04-15 09:54:50
User: tatwright
Functions: date
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Find the modified time (mtime) for a file
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date -d@1234567890
2009-04-11 22:26:41
User: kFiddle
Functions: date
Tags: date
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Convert seconds to human-readable format

This example, for example, produces the output, "Fri Feb 13 15:26:30 EST 2009"

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tar -czvvf backup$(date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S").tar.gz /path/to/dir
2009-04-10 21:37:17
User: unixmonkey743
Functions: date tar
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backup a directory in a timestamped tar.gz

creates a tar.gz with a name like:

backup20090410_173053.tar.gz

of a given directory.

this file was made 10 April 2009 at 5:30:53pm

see date's man page to customize the timestamp format

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echo $( (( $( (2**31 -1) ) - $(date +%s) )) )
2009-04-02 05:14:23
User: Chartreuse
Functions: date echo
Tags: bash echo date
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Number of seconds to certain unix date

Echos the number of seconds from the current time till the specified time (Example in command is (2**31-1)) aka the Unix epoch. Just replace that number with the specified date (in seconds past Jan. 1st 1970) and it will return the seconds.

NOTE: Only works in bash

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date +%m/%d/%y%X|tr -d 'n' >>datemp.log&& sensors|grep +5V|cut -d "(" -f1|tr -d 'n'>> datemp.log && sensors |grep Temp |cut -d "(" -f1|tr -d 'n'>>datemp.log
2009-03-31 18:13:23
User: f241vc15
Functions: cut date grep sensors tr
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log your PC's motherboard and CPU temperature along with the current date
cat datemp.log

04/01/0902:11:42

Sys Temp: +11.0?C

CPU Temp: +35.5?C

AUX Temp: +3.0?C

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date -d @$(echo $((2 ** 31 - 1)))
2009-03-30 19:42:20
User: jnash
Functions: date echo
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Then end of the UNIX epoch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Some other notable dates that have passed:

date -d@1234567890 date -d@1000000000
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date -d "@$(find dir -type f -printf '%C@\n' | sort -n | sed -n "$(($(find dir -type f | wc -l)/2))p")" +%F
2009-03-24 18:48:49
User: allengarvin
Functions: date dir find wc
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Find the median file modification time of files in a directory tree

I needed to get a feel for how "old" different websites were, based on their directories.

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date --date=yesterday
2009-03-20 10:56:32
User: KeePon
Functions: date
Tags: Date manipulation
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print date 24 hours ago
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vi ~/journal/$(date +%F)
2009-03-18 23:31:13
User: ar
Functions: date vi
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Update your journal

prerequisite:

mkdir ~/journal
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date --iso
2009-02-25 23:50:40
User: raphink
Functions: date
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Generic date format

Useful to archive files once a day:

cp file file.$(date --iso)
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date -d '2 weeks ago Saturday' +%Y-%m-%d
2009-02-21 16:42:52
User: NPH
Functions: date
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Calculates the date 2 weeks ago from Saturday the specified format.

Good for automating reports that need to run from between two dates.

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date "+The time is %H:%M" | say
2009-02-20 20:14:53
User: las3rjock
Functions: date
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Say the current time (Mac OS X)

On other systems, replace 'say' with the name of another text-to-speech engine, e.g. espeak ( http://espeak.sourceforge.net ) or festival ( http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival )

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date -R -d @1234567890
2009-02-13 18:27:42
User: zb
Functions: date
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Unix time to local time

Today

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date +%s
2009-02-13 13:30:44
User: legba7
Functions: date
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Unixtime

displays time in seconds since January 1, 1970 UTC

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tar zcvf somedir-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tar.gz somedir/
2009-02-10 15:25:40
User: kmac
Functions: date tar
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Archive a directory with datestamp on filename

A useful bash function:

gztardir()

{

if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then

echo "incorrect arguments: should be gztardir "

else

tar zcvf "${1%/}-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tar.gz" "$1"

fi

}

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archivefile=filename-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tar.gz
2009-02-10 14:40:43
User: kmac
Functions: date
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Name a backup/archive file based on current date and time
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sudo date mmddhhxxyyyy
2009-02-10 08:26:12
User: unixmonkey529
Functions: date sudo
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set the time of system
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sudo date -s "26 OCT 2008 19:30:00"
2009-02-09 20:26:30
User: cinan
Functions: date sudo
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Set date and time
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date -d 09/20/1981 +"%Y-%m-%d"
2009-02-09 18:30:44
User: trunet
Functions: date
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Change date from MM/DD/YYYY to YYYY-MM-DD (mysql like)
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date --date="1 fortnight ago"
2009-02-06 20:57:59
User: mkc
Functions: date
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date offset calculations

The date command does offset calculations nicely, handles concepts like "a month" as you'd expect, and is good for offsets of at least 100M years in either direction.

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date --utc --date "2009-02-06 09:57:54" +%s
2009-02-06 08:29:12
User: michelem
Functions: date
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Convert a date to timestamp

Simple way to get a timestamp from a date

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