How to get the current time string before 10 a clock in bash?

Question

Using the command:

CURRTIME=`date "+%Y%m%d%k%M%S"`

I can get the current time string such as "20120827141534". I want to use this string to make a file . But when it is before 10 a clock, it can't runs well. The string will be spearate Because the the hour string has only one digit with space before it. CURRTIME will be like this:20120827 41534. How can I deal with it?

Answer 1

Use %H instead of %k :

CURRTIME=`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`

%k is space padded (obviously). but %H adds a padded 0.