On 26/11/2000 at 20:16 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > How to echo the current date and time to a log file? > > echo 'date:' ??? 'time:' ??? > file.log > $ echo date: $(date +%x) time: $(date +%X) date: 26-11-2000 time: 20:02:07 Is this what you want? Check the date manpage for more options. Regards, sena... -- sena@decoy.ath.cx, http://decoy.ath.cx/~sena/ gpg fingerprint: F20B 12A8 A8F6 FD1F 9B1D BA62 C424 8E73 DD2E 47C8