YYYY-MM-DD format date in shell script

Question

I tried using $(date) in my bash shell script, however I want the date in YYYY-MM-DD format. How do I get this?

Answer 1

You can do something like this:

$ date +'%Y-%m-%d'

Answer 2

Try:

DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`

Answer 3

Try: $(date +%F)