Bash: Display Current Date

To display the current date in Bash, you can use the date command.

Simply run the following command in a Bash terminal:

This will display the current date and time in the default format, which is determined by the system’s locale settings.

If you want to display the date in a specific format, you can use the + symbol followed by a string of format codes to customize the output. For example, to display the date in the format YYYY-MM-DD, you can run the following command:

This will output the date in the format YYYY-MM-DD, where YYYY is the four-digit year, MM is the two-digit month, and DD is the two-digit day of the month.

You can find a complete list of format codes in the date manual page by running man date in the terminal.