Date in shell script

[thbaig]

hello,

I want to format date in my shell script so that I may use it as file name.How can I format date from default formatting to dd/mm/yy ?

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

My guess is that the default formatting is what you specify in your Regional and Language Options; is it not?

If not, does your scripting language allow substring handling? Then you can just reformat it.

[thbaig]

the default format is Day mm/dd/yyyy e.g Friday 16......

but I just want to get date in dd/mm/yyyy (excluding day)

My guess is that the default formatting is what you specify in your Regional and Language Options; is it not?

If not, does your scripting language allow substring handling? Then you can just reformat it.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

If the function you use to obtain the date does not provide an alternative formatting, then you will have to use some form of substring editing.