Question

In Linux,

"echo %date% %time% %COMPUTERNAME%"

returns

%date% %time% %COMPUTERNAME%

not

Fri 09/24/2010 10:46:25.42 WXP2010043001

as Windows does.
I need to be able to do this for the logs I’m setting up.

Answer 1

Use the date command with a format like this:

date +"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S $HOSTNAME"

To get hundredths of seconds, you may need to do some text processing like this:

DATE=date +'%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S.%N'
DATE=${DATE%???????}
DATE="$DATE $HOSTNAME"

This is because date offers seconds, nanoseconds, and nothing in between!