How to get the current date and time in the terminal and set a custom command in terminal for it?

Question

I have to check the time in linux terminal.<br/> What is the command for getting date and time in Linux terminal ?<br/> Is there any way in which we can set custom function ?

Answer 1

You can use "date" linux command to get the current date and time. Not sure what you mean set a custom function. you can make any command small even with options added using alias.

for eg:

date will give you a response like 'Tue Oct 13 15:59:50 EDT 2020'

date +"%B %d %y %l:%M:%S %p" will give 'October 13 20 3:59:50 PM'

you can create an alias like below

alias mydate='date +"%B %d %y %l:%M:%S %p"'

now when you run the command mydate you will get the result in new format.