How to use the 'date' command to display week number of the year?

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                          I want the UNIX date to output:

    So this is week 35 of 2016.

Here, of course, 35 and 2016 are outputs of the date command. I have tried the following:

    date +%U

This printed out the current week number. But I have to wrap it inside the specific text I want to display. I tried: 

    date "So this is week: %U"
    date "It is currently: "+ "%U"

Both gave me an error. How can I make the date command display the week number to me in the specific format that I desire?

Asked by learnerX (918 rep)

May 11, 2016, 08:15 PM
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How to use the 'date' command to display week number of the year?

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