How to find time in sh scripting

Question

I'm trying to find a way to get date and time separately. For date I can do:

date -u +%d/%m/%Y

What should I do to find the time in the following format?

hh/mm/ss

Thanks

Answer 1

The date command can give you the time part as well. Check out the man page (or type man date on your command line) for more details.

date -u +%H:%M:%S

Or to meet your formatting requirement of HH/MM/SS:

date -u +%H/%M/%S

Answer 2

date -u +%H/%M/%S