On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 08:56:24AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:53:25PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > > Adding > > > > > > alias date='date +"%a %b %d %T %Z %Y"' > > > > > > to one's .bashrc or /etc/bashrc should get the OP what he wants. > > It did make just the date command work as desired. I > actually tried that very thing maybe a year or so ago > and it worked, sort of.
It breaks if you try to use your own "plus" argument. unicorn:~$ alias date='date +"%a %b %d %T %Z %Y"' unicorn:~$ date +%s date: extra operand ‘+%s’ Try 'date --help' for more information. unicorn:~$ unalias date unicorn:~$ date +%s 1588170499 If you mean "It worked when I ran date with no arguments", then sure, it will "work" for that one sample case. But it breaks in many other cases.
