Get current time in hours and minutes

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I m trying to collect information from a system and I need to get the current time in hours and minutes   Currently I have   date   awk   print  4     which outputs something like   16 18 54   How do I chop off the seconds

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Provide a format string   date    H  M    Running man date will give all the format options   a     locale s abbreviated weekday name  e g   Sun   A     locale s full weekday name  e g   Sunday   b     locale s abbreviated month name  e g   Jan   B     locale s full month name  e g   January   c     locale s date and time  e g   Thu Mar  3 23 05 25 2005   C     century  like  Y  except omit last two digits  e g   20   d     day of month  e g   01   D     date  same as  m  d  y  e     day of month  space padded  same as   d  F     full date  same as  Y- m- d  g     last two digits of year of ISO week number  see  G   G     year of ISO week number  see  V   normally useful only with  V  h     same as  b  H     hour  00  23   I     hour  01  12   j     day of year  001  366   k     hour  space padded   0  23   same as   H  l     hour  space padded   1  12   same as   I  m     month  01  12   M     minute  00  59   n     a newline  N     nanoseconds  000000000  999999999   p     locale s equivalent of either AM or PM  blank if not known  P     like  p  but lower case  r     locale s 12-hour clock time  e g   11 11 04 PM   R     24-hour hour and minute  same as  H  M  s     seconds since 1970-01-01 00 00 00 UTC  S     second  00  60   t     a tab  T     time  same as  H  M  S  u     day of week  1  7   1 is Monday  U     week number of year  with Sunday as first day of week  00  53   V     ISO week number  with Monday as first day of week  01  53   w     day of week  0  6   0 is Sunday  W     week number of year  with Monday as first day of week  00  53   x     locale s date representation  e g   12 31 99   X     locale s time representation  e g   23 13 48   y     last two digits of year  00  99   Y     year  z      hhmm numeric time zone  e g   -0400    z     hh mm numeric time zone  e g   -04 00     z    hh mm ss numeric time zone  e g   -04 00 00      z  numeric time zone with   to necessary precision  e g   -04   05 30   Z     alphabetic time zone abbreviation  e g   EDT

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date   H  M  Would be easier  I think     If you really wanted to chop off the seconds  you could have done date   sed  s       0-9    0-9      0-9      1

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Could also potentially use this script to use the system time in a variable now   date   quot  m  d  Y  M  S quot    Which outputs as  12 07 2020 34 21

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With bash version  gt   4 2  printf  quot    H  M T n quot   or printf -v foo  quot    H  M T n quot  echo  quot  foo quot    See  man bash

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you can use command date   awk   print  4    cut -d     -f3  as you mentioned using only the date awk   print  4   pipeline gives you something like this 20 18 19  so as we can see if we want to extract some part of this string then we need a delimiter   for our case it is    so we decide to chop on the basis of    Now this delimiter will chop the string into three parts i e   20  18 and  19   as we want the second one we use -f2 in our command  to sum up   cut   chops some string based on delimeter  -d   delimeter  here    -f2   the chopped off token that we want

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I have another solution for your question   In the first when use date the output is like this   Thu 28 Jan 2021 22 29 40 IST  Then if you want only to show current time in hours and minutes you can use this command   date   cut -d  quot   quot  -f5   cut -d  quot   quot  -f1-2   Then the output    22 29

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