I found out that date --date 'Jul 16 1991'
has an complete output, but I only want the terminal to show the name of the day e.g. Monday. How do I do that?
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date --date 'Jul 16 1991' +%A
See man date
, specifically the section on output formatting.

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date --date %A 'Jul 16 1991'
but did not work, I get the order now. Thank you – MOTIVECODEX Nov 17 '12 at 23:30+
is important. – user Nov 19 '12 at 10:26