I am actually trying to get a script to move our backup tapes from one system to another and the assigned date / time is in the format ... 02/01/2002 10:13:17 AM. To import the tapes there is a parameter for the assigned time but it needs ctime which, in this case is ... 1012587197.

I know of DTConverter but it does not have any command line switches to automatically perform the task within a script.

If I give the initial format a variable named for e.g. ASSIGNED, how can I use that to get another variable name for e.g. CASSIGNED which will have the inital $ASSIGNED converted to ctime?

Hopefully this makes sense.

Thanks kindly for any help that you can give.

BTW - I am running the sctipt on an NT 2000 server using the UNIX Korn Shell utilities.

NIce way to make NT useful, install UNIX commands on it...