Hi I am very new to scripting,
Can someone show me how to (in unix shell script) compare the system's date with a date in a file. The requirement is to somehow open this file (which will only have a date in it) and compare it with today's date. If they are equal execute a procedure below but if... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to show today's date and time in a better format than ‘date' (Using positional parameters). I found a command mktime and am wondering if this is the best command to use or will this also show me the time elapse since 1/30/70? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks... (3 Replies)
Hello gurus,
I am hoping someone can help me with the required code/script to make this work. I have the following file with records starting at line 4:
NETW~US60~000000000013220694~002~~IT~USD~2.24~20110201~99991231~01~01~20101104~... (4 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I am trying to add one variable value as the first value in a file speparated by "" (space) delimiter. Can you please let me know how I can do this using bash script.
Following is my file.
1635 ABCD 3m9ka COMPLETE
0526 AJAY 3m1da COMPLETE
0419 INDIA 3m3zi INCOMPLETE
The... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file like this:
2012112920121130
12345620121130msABowwiqiq
34477420121129amABamauee
e7748420121130ehABeheheei
in case the content of the file has the date of yesterday within the lines containing pattern AB this should be replaced by the current date. But if I use... (3 Replies)
Hi,
One of my Unix scripts needs to look for files coming in on Fridays. This script runs on Mondays. $date +"%y%m%d" will give me today's date. How can I get previous Friday's date.. can I do "today's date minus 3 days" to get Friday's date? If not, then any other way?? Name of the files is... (4 Replies)
hello,
can someone please suggest a script to rename a file that was generated today and filename that being generated daily starts with date, its a xml file.
here is example.
# find . -type f -mtime -1
./20130529_4995733057260357019.xml
#
this finename should be renamed to this format.... (6 Replies)
Hi Team,
I'm new to unix and i have a requirement to copy or move files from one directory to another based on current date mentioned in the .zip file name. Note that i need to copy only the recent zip file. please help me with the code
i tried the code as:
#! /usr/bin/sh
find... (3 Replies)
Hi Community!
Following on from this code in another thread:
#!/bin/bash
file_string=`/bin/cat date.txt | /usr/bin/awk '{print $5,$4,$7,$6,$8}'`
file_date=`/bin/date -d "$file_string"`
file_epoch=`/bin/date -d "$file_string" +%s`
now_epoch=`/bin/date +%s`
if
then
#let... (2 Replies)
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datetime.diff
DATETIME.DIFF(3) 1 DATETIME.DIFF(3)DateTime::diff - Returns the difference between two DateTime objects
Object oriented style
SYNOPSIS
public DateInterval DateTime::diff (DateTimeInterface $datetime2, [bool $absolute = false])
DESCRIPTION
DateInterval DateTimeImmutable::diff (DateTimeInterface $datetime2, [bool $absolute = false]) DateInterval DateTimeInterface::diff (Date-
TimeInterface $datetime2, [bool $absolute = false])
Procedural style
DateInterval date_diff (DateTimeInterface $datetime1, DateTimeInterface $datetime2, [bool $absolute = false])
Returns the difference between two DateTimeInterface objects.
PARAMETERS
o $datetime
- The date to compare to.
o $absolute
- Should the interval be forced to be positive?
RETURN VALUES
The DateInterval object representing the difference between the two dates or FALSE on failure.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
DateTime.diff(3) example
Object oriented style
<?php
$datetime1 = new DateTime('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = new DateTime('2009-10-13');
$interval = $datetime1->diff($datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
?>
Procedural style
<?php
$datetime1 = date_create('2009-10-11');
$datetime2 = date_create('2009-10-13');
$interval = date_diff($datetime1, $datetime2);
echo $interval->format('%R%a days');
?>
The above examples will output:
+2 days
Example #2
DateTime object comparison
Note
As of PHP 5.2.2, DateTime objects can be compared using comparison operators.
<?php
$date1 = new DateTime("now");
$date2 = new DateTime("tomorrow");
var_dump($date1 == $date2);
var_dump($date1 < $date2);
var_dump($date1 > $date2);
?>
The above example will output:
bool(false)
bool(true)
bool(false)
SEE ALSO DateInterval.format(3), DateTime.add(3), DateTime.sub(3).
PHP Documentation Group DATETIME.DIFF(3)