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mariourk
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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject: Echo and date

How can I use echo to putout the date. I want to use this in a backupscript.

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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject:

Reply with quote

assuming you are using bash:

Code:

echo $(date)

"man date" if you like a different date format.

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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:56 pm Post subject:

Works great! Thanks!

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