You enter the command date +%M. What does the output show you?
A.
the current year
B.
the current month
C.
the current hour
D.
the current minute
E.
the current second
Explanation:
date command displays the current date and time information as well as we can set new date and
time to system by supplying-s option.
To display time: date+%T
To display Minute: date +%M
To display Month : date+%m
%% a literal %
%a locale’s abbreviated weekday name (Sun .. Sat)
% A locale’s full weekday name, variable length (Sunday.-Saturday)
%b locale’s abbreviated month name (Jan .. Dec)
%B locale’s full month name, variable length (January .. December)
%c locale’s date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)
%C century (year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer)
[00-99]
%d day of month (01 ..31 )
% Ddate( mm/dd/yy)
%e day of month, blank padded (1.31)
%F same as %Y-%m-%d
%g the 2-digit year corresponding to the %V week number
%G the 4-digit year corresponding to the %V week number%h same as %b
%H hour (00. .23)
%l hour (01 .. 12)
% jdayofyear( 001..366)
% khour( 0..23)
% lhour( 1..12)
%m month (01 ..12 )
%M minute (00 ..59 )
%n a newline
%N nanoseconds (000000000 ..999999999 )
%p locale’s upper case AM or PM indicator (blank in many locales)
%P locale’s lower case am or pm indicator (blank in many locales)
%r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP ]M )
%R time, 24-hour (hh:mm)
%s seconds since *”00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTCSC” (a GNU extension)
%S second (00 ..60 ); the 60 is necessary to accommodate a leap seC.
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%t a horizontal tab %Ttime, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss) %u day of week (1..7); 1 represents Monday %U
week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53) %V week number of year with
Monday as first day of week (01. .53) %w day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday %W week
number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53) %x locale’s date representation
(mm/dd/yy) %X locale’s time representation (%H:%M:%S) %y last two digits of year (00..99) %Y
year (1970…)
%z RFC.2822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)
%L time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable