On 18 July 2014 12:38, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote: > > If you only need the year, month and day (as opposed to hour and > minute), then the form > > `date --iso` > > instead of > > `date +%Y%m%d.%H%M` > > is easier to type. I use this all the time. I would just do `date +%F`