The strftime() function is used to create a human-readable time string based on the current time. It is quite similar to the shell command date. It returns the current date in seconds by default; however, we can use this to create a string based on the time. The first argument to the strftime function takes a string to specify the format of the output date. The second argument is a timestamp in the same format as the value returned by the systime function. If the second argument is not specified, then GAWK uses the current time of day as the timestamp. The following example shows how the strftime() function works:
$ vi strftime.awkBEGIN { format = "Todays date is : %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S" print strftime( ...
