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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Creating a file with the date in it Post 2350 by alwayslearningunix on Wednesday 9th of May 2001 05:12:01 AM
Old 05-09-2001
hey n9ninchd
I'm not sure if I understood your question, but if you just want the numerical date format you can just specify the date command to be format thus:

`date "+%m%d%y"` which will return 050901 for example (todays date - 9th May 2001)

Hope this helps.

Regards
alwayslearningunix
 

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