How to derive current date and time and append at the end of each line that contains 'Hello'

Question

I have the following file party.txt that contains something like the following:

Hello Jacky
Hello Peter
Bye Johnson
Hello Willy
Bye Johnny
Hello Mar         


        

Answer 1

 awk 'BEGIN{"date +'%Y-%m-%d'"|getline d;}/Hello/{print $0,d}' file

will give you:

Hello Jacky  2012-09-11
Hello Peter 2012-09-11
Hello Willy 2012-09-11
Hello Mary 2012-09-11
Hello Wendy 2012-09-11