hi all,
in ksh, how do i format date so it includes hour and minute ?? i am trying the following command :

date +%Om/%Od/%Oy%OH:%M

but it displays the hour and minute concatenated with the day/month/year e.g 12/10/0814:08

when i want the output to be

12/10/08 14:08

i tried `date +%Om/%Od/%Oy %OH:%M` but that just leaves the time portion out and displays date only i.e 12/10/08.


thanks in advance.

simple !!
put a space inbetween year and hour

date +"%Om/%Od/%Oy %OH:%M"

nope that doesnt work as i tried that already as per my original post. However the below works :


date '+%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S'


output :

12/10/08 14:23:53

oh common it will work i can bet on that.. you might have typed it wrong somewhere and your desired output can be possible by simply

 
home> date +"%D %T"
12/10/08 06:58:45
home> date +"%Om/%Od/%Oy %OH:%M"
12/10/08 06:59

Which date are you using? Modern versions of ksh have a builtin date which has slightly different semantics than the standalone date utility. Try date --man. If it displays information, then you are using the builtin date.