Question

I am trying to get Month and Date from Date in Linux. this is my code

# Set Date 
D="2013/01/17"

# get day 
DD=$(D+"%d")

# get day 
MM=$(D+"%M")

# Day 
echo "Day:"$DD
echo "Month:"$MM

Answer 1

In sh or bash:

D="2013/01/17"
DAY=$(date -d "$D" '+%d')
MONTH=$(date -d "$D" '+%m')
YEAR=$(date -d "$D" '+%Y')

echo "Day: $DAY"
echo "Month: $MONTH"
echo "Year: $YEAR"