日期:
echo "现在时间:`date '+%Y%m%d %T'`"
输出:现在时间:20070629 08:53:22
解析:date返回当前时间,'+%Y%m%d %T'控制时间格式,每个参数都有特定的意义,下面是各种参数
%% a literal %
%a locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
%A locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)
%b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
%B locale's full month name, variable length (January..December)
%c locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)
%C century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer) [00-99]
%d day of month (01..31)
%D date (mm/dd/yy)
%e day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)
%F same as %Y-%m-%d
%g the 2-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
%G the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
%h same as %b
%H hour (00..23)
%I hour (01..12)
%j day of year (001..366)
%k hour ( 0..23)
%l hour ( 1..12)
%m month (01..12)
%M minute (00..59)
%n a newline
%N nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p locale's upper case AM or PM indicator (blank in many locales)
%P locale's lower case am or pm indicator (blank in many locales)
%r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
%R time, 24-hour (hh:mm)
%s seconds since `00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC' (a GNU extension)
%S second (00..60); the 60 is necessary to accommodate a leap sec-ond
%t a horizontal tab
%T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
%u day of week (1..7); 1 represents Monday
%U week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday
%W week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)
%X locale's time representation (%H:%M:%S)
%y last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y year (1970...)
%z RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)
%Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is deter-minable
日期加减操作:
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 day')
2011年 11月 04日 星期五 01:25:44 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 day ago')
2011年 10月 29日 星期六 01:26:07 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 month')
2012年 02月 01日 星期三 01:26:20 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 month ago')
2011年 08月 01日 星期一 01:26:28 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 year')
2014年 11月 01日 星期六 01:26:42 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 year ago')
2008年 11月 01日 星期六 01:26:48 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 minute ')
2011年 11月 01日 星期二 01:22:20 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 minute ago')
2011年 11月 01日 星期二 01:26:20 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 hour ago')
2011年 10月 31日 星期一 22:30:11 CST
[root@weibin-fedora var]# echo $(date --date='3 hour')
2011年 11月 01日 星期二 04:30:24 CST
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