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Linux / Bash - print current Unix time in milliseconds

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In this short article, we would like to show how to print unix time in milliseconds in Unix / Linux terminal.

Quick example:

date +%s%3N

Screenshot:

Milliseconds time in Linux / Unix Bash.
Milliseconds time in Linux / Unix Bash.

Alternatives

This section shows alternative solutions. 

date +%s%N | cut -b 1-13

# or

echo $(($(date +%s%N) / 1000000))

Note: the first of the solutions above is not perfect as we have extracted 1-13 numbers which will change in the long term due to the increasing number representing time.

Some linux distributions and Unix based operating systems like OS X could do not upport %N, so it can be necessary to use other solution to get it. Below description shows how to do it with different techniques.

Solutions table: 

LanguageConsole command
Rubyruby -e 'puts Time.now.to_f'
Pythonpython -c 'import time; print time.time()'
Node.jsnode -e 'console.log(Date.now())'
PHPphp -r 'echo microtime(TRUE);'
ElixirDateTime.utc_now() |> DateTime.to_unix(:millisecond)
date roundeddate +%s000

Example time source for wget and curl:

  1. https://currentmillis.com/

 

Alternative titles

  1. Linux / Bash - millisecond time in unix terminal
  2. Linux / Bash - print current Unix timestamp in milliseconds
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