Date reformatting in UNIX (useful when you need to send file with timestamp)

Date reformatting in UNIX (useful when you need to send file with timestamp)

Here is one way of reformatting the date:

date '+ %m%d%Y_ %H%M%S' to get the date in the format, 10052004_114643

The usage takes the format,
$ datetail=`date '+ %m%d%Y_%H%M%S'`
$ echo $datetail