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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users command to find when Linux OS is installed? Post 302306743 by cfajohnson on Monday 13th of April 2009 04:44:59 PM
Old 04-13-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by crackthehit007
Anyone knows command to find when Linux OS is installed?

Code:
uname

As in:

Code:
case $(uname) in
     Linux) : some linux command ;;
     FreeBSD) : some FreeBSD command ;;
     *) : ??? ;;
esac

Quote:
Date and time?

Code:
date

Just the date:

Code:
date +%Y-%m-%d

Just the time:

Code:
date +%H:%M:%S

Read the man page for all the formatting options.
 

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