Format Current Date in Shell Script (Bash)

Aug 22, 2018

Year, Month, Date (e.g. 20180120).

timestamp=`date +"%Y%m%d"`

Date + Time (e.g. 2018-01-20 22:10:05)

timestamp=`date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S

NOTE: Check date format.

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