How to get the current date in a script using bamboo

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How can you get the current date in YYYYMMDD formate in a Atlassian Bamboo script?

Are you creating a bamboo script or a bash script? – konsolebox Aug 15 '14 at 17:20 — konsolebox, Aug 15 '14 at 17:20

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 26 '14 at 12:28

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DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d)

It doesn't work for, but

DATE=$(date +%%Y%%m%%d)

works fine :) I have Bamboo 3.4.1

answered Dec 26 '14 at 12:28

Ivanoff

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '14 at 20:26

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If it's in bash, it's:

$ date +Y%m%d
20140815

If you want that in a variable, these ways are essentially equivalent:

DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
DATE=$(date +%Y%m%d)

answered Aug 15 '14 at 20:26

zerodiff

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