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

In gawk only:

$ gawk '/Hello/ {print $0, strftime("%Y-%m-%d");}' party.txt 
Hello Jacky 2019-09-17 
Hello Peter 2019-09-17 
Hello Willy 2019-09-17 
Hello Mary 2019-09-17 
Hello Wendy 2019-09-17