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I want to get day from the current system date

Hi,

I want to check what day is today (like mon,Tue,wed)
When i checked the syntax, i dont see there is a format specifier for getting the day. Let me know how to get the same.

I am very new to unix and so I am asking some basic questions.

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Check out this command

date '+%a'

this will return the current day.

Their are other options too. Check out the man page of date command
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Thanks Amit for your input. It is working fine
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