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I want to be able to add the system time and date (not EXIF tag data) to an image running from command line. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get the system date. I am using IM on linux. (I have found on windows I can use %TIME% to return the system date and time, but doesn't work on linux). Here's an example, and I'm not sure what to put in place of SYSTEM_TIME_HERE to get the system date/time to annotate. Any help appreciated.

datetime=`date`
echo $datetime
Mon Oct 7 19:55:11 PDT 2013

so get date info and put into a variable and then use the variable in the IM command -annotate, but put it in double quotes.


datetime=`date`
convert source.jpg -pointsize 24 -fill white -undercolor '#00000080' -gravity SouthEast -annotate +0+5 "$datetime" output.jpg

Perfect! Thanks. Wasn't sure how to do both from one commandline, but tried it and worked beautifully!

this also works in one command line:

convert source.jpg -pointsize 24 -fill white -undercolor '#00000080' -gravity SouthEast -annotate +0+5 "$(date)" output.jpg