Quoting problem with `date`

cleansing_flame · February 22, 2008, 9:34am

I'm trying to take the command `date` giving me:
Fri Feb 22 09:23:52 EST 2008

and using some command take out the rest of the string leaving me with

"Fri Feb 22"

any help appreciated hopefully thanks in advance

simulant · February 22, 2008, 10:05am

Use the Field Descriptors for 'date':
$ date +"%a %b %d"

cleansing_flame · February 22, 2008, 10:41am

thanks a lot

jim_mcnamara · February 22, 2008, 2:26pm

The man page (or info) for date gives you what all of these format specifiers are.
There are a lot of them. GNU date (usually on Linux) has extras, and extra functionality POSIX date does not have those extras.

-- POSIX is a unix standard for commands, etc.