How to change the date format?

[xlskk]

hello my friends.

i need help for freebsd date format
i need change date format

normal date format
Tue Jun 25 23:32:44 EEST 2013

i need format
250620132332

help plz

Hello my friends,

I need help changing the date format in FreeBSD. The normal date format is

Tue Jun 25 23:32:44 EEST 2013

but what I need is a format of the form

250620132332

Please help.

 

[fonz]

Exactly what sort of date format are you talking about? The date(1) command can convert date formats from the command line, ctime(3) and related functions are C functions that can do the necessary conversions.

 

[bkouhi]

Is this helpful?

% date "+%d%m%G%H%M"

Example output:

[CMD]% date "+%d%m%G%H%M"[/CMD]
260620130121