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I found out that date --date 'Jul 16 1991' has an complete output, but I only want the terminal to show the name of the day e.g. Monday. How do I do that?

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date --date 'Jul 16 1991' +%A

See man date, specifically the section on output formatting.

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Ah I see, I did tried date --date %A 'Jul 16 1991' but did not work, I get the order now. Thank you – F4LLCON Nov 17 '12 at 23:30
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@F4LLCON Also note that the + is important. – Michael Kjörling Nov 19 '12 at 10:26
yes thank you i saw that :) – F4LLCON Nov 19 '12 at 15:20

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