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ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/`date +git-$USER@$HOSTNAME-%m-%d-%g` -C 'webmaster@askapache.com'
# /home/gpl/.ssh/git-gplnet@askapache.github.com-04-22-10
# create a tar+gzip backup of the current directory
tar -czf $(date +$HOME/.backups/%m-%d-%g-%R-`sed -u 's/\//#/g' <<< $PWD`.tgz) .
# tar -czf /home/gpl/.backups/04-22-10-01:13-#home#gpl#.rr#src.tgz .
I personally find myself having to reference
date --help
quite a bit as a result. So this nice alias saves me a lot of time. This is one bdash mofo. Works in sh and bash (posix), but will likely need to be changed for other shells due to the parameter substitution going on.. Just extend the sed command, I prefer sed to pretty much everything anyways.. but it's always preferable to put in the extra effort to go for as much builtin use as you can. Otherwise it's not a top one-liner, it's a lazyboy recliner.
Here's the old version:
alias dateh='date --help|sed "/^ *%%/,/^ *%Z/!d;s/ \+/ /g"|while read l;do date "+ %${l/% */}_${l/% */}_${l#* }";done|column -s_ -t'
This trick from my [ http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html bash_profile ]
%%: '%' a literal % %a: 'Wed' locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun) %A: 'Wednesday' locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday) %b: 'Mar' locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan) %B: 'March' locale's full month name (e.g., January) %c: 'Wed Mar 27 23:50:06 2013' locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar 3 23:05:25 2005) %C: '20' century; like 2013, except omit last two digits (e.g., 20) %d: '27' day of month (e.g., 01) %D: '03/27/13' date; same as 03/27/13 %e: '27' day of month, space padded; same as 27 %F: '2013-03-27' full date; same as 2013-03-27 %g: '13' last two digits of year of ISO week number (see 2013) %G: '2013' year of ISO week number (see 13); normally useful only with 13 %h: 'Mar' same as Mar %H: '23' hour (00..23) %I: '11' hour (01..12) %j: '086' day of year (001..366) %k: '23' hour, space padded ( 0..23); same as 23 %l: '11' hour, space padded ( 1..12); same as 11 %m: '03' month (01..12) %M: '50' minute (00..59) %n: ' ' a newline %N: '853525313' nanoseconds (000000000..999999999) %p: 'PM' locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known %P: 'pm' like PM, but lower case %r: '11:50:06 PM' locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM) %R: '23:50' 24-hour hour and minute; same as 23:50 %s: '1364442606' seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC %S: '06' second (00..60) %t: ' ' a tab %T: '23:50:06' time; same as 23:50:06 %u: '3' day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday %U: '12' week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53) %V: '13' ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53) %w: '3' day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday %W: '12' week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53) %x: '03/27/13' locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99) %X: '23:50:06' locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48) %y: '13' last two digits of year (00..99) %Y: '2013' year %z: '-0400' +hhmm numeric time zone (e.g., -0400) %:z: '-04:00' +hh:mm numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00) %::z: '-04:00:00' +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00) %:::z: '-04' numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30) %Z: 'EDT' alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)
What do you think?
Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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man date |grep %alias dateh='date --help|sed -n "/^ *%%/,/^ *%Z/p"|while read l;do date "+ %${l/% */}:%t${l/% */}%n%t%t${l#* }";done'It also eliminates some odd quote placement and escaping in the original.