{"id":6133,"date":"2016-08-03T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2016-08-03T08:38:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:38:39","slug":"dynamic-date-value-in-shell-scripts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=6133","title":{"rendered":"dynamic date value in shell scripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>dynamic date value in shell scripts<\/strong><br \/>\nusing a variable \u2013 easier to read in scripts:<br \/>\nNOW=$(date +&#8221;%Y%m%d%H%M%S&#8221;)<br \/>\necho &#8220;bar&#8221; > &#8220;$NOW&#8221;foobar.txt<\/p>\n<p>one-line, equivalent to above:<br \/>\necho &#8220;bar&#8221; > $(date +&#8221;%Y%m%d%H%M%S&#8221;)foobar.txt<\/p>\n<p>alternate single-line format:<br \/>\necho &#8220;bar&#8221; >> $(date &#8220;+myfile%Y%m%d.txt&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>man strftime to see formatting values<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>dynamic date value in shell scripts using a variable \u2013 easier to read in scripts: NOW=$(date +&#8221;%Y%m%d%H%M%S&#8221;) echo &#8220;bar&#8221; > &#8220;$NOW&#8221;foobar.txt<\/p>\n<p>one-line, equivalent to above: echo &#8220;bar&#8221; > $(date +&#8221;%Y%m%d%H%M%S&#8221;)foobar.txt<\/p>\n<p>alternate single-line format: echo &#8220;bar&#8221; >> $(date &#8220;+myfile%Y%m%d.txt&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>man strftime to see formatting values<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6134,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6133\/revisions\/6134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}