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Yeah, sure there are plenty of ways to get the time from date. My problem was that I did not know that sed treads + and { primarily as a normal character and not as a regex.

Maybe we should start...

sure, I could also use

date | awk '{print $4}'


:)

Why do I have to escape something like * and . to get the character and escape + and { to get the regex?

Isn't that a kind of counter logic?

Thanks for the help

Hi,

I tried to extract the time from `date` with sed.
(I know it works with `date +%H:%M:%S` as well)

I got three solutions of which just one worked. I thought "+" should repeat the previous...