I am trying to set up a shortcut which will enter today's date into the active text field.
I'm not sure if it is even possible to do this directly with a shortcut...
I've set up a shortcut which runs a bash script using the date command - but how to pass the output of the script to the text field?
Maybe there is some other way to do this??

ok, solved
used xdotool in a bash script

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#! /bin/sh
date=$(date +%y-%m-%d)
sleep 0.2
xdotool type $date

will enter today's date into all active text fields i have tried so far - useful!