showing date using pipe
 

hi friends,

the date commands in linux displays the date,month and year also
what i want to do is using charmap and pipe ,i want to make a command that will only give me the date..... would u guys plZzzz help me.

What's wrong with:
date +%d

or:
date +%-d
if you don't want a leading zero.

thanx a lot.... man but i was trying to do this using charmap... neway once again thanx.....