You enter the command date +%M. What does the output show you?
A.
the current hour
B.
the current minute
C.
the current month
D.
the current second
E.
the current year
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 197001 UTCSC" (a GNU extension) %S second (00..60); the 60 is necessary to accommodate a leap sec.%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