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’sdate 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) %D date (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) %I hour (01..12) %j day of year (001..366) %k hour ( 0..23) %l hour ( 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) ond %t a horizontal tab %T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss) %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 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 exten- sion)
%Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is deter- minable