System date to a column

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1

Hello,

I would like to write a scrip which gives System Date for a column, is there any function I can use to print the System date.

Thanks in Advance

Regards,
Mahesh

2

I might be misunderstanding your question but what's wrong with 'date'?

3

I would like to echo the System date and time and print it whenever I run the script so that I have a record of the script run date

Thanks and regards,
Mahesh

4

Assuming I understand this you want something like
date data

data=something

echo "`date +%d%m%Y`{Separator}$data" >> file

cat file
16052008{Separator}something

5

Suggestively, you may want to change `date +%d%m%Y` to `date +%Y%m%d`.

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