epoch time in shell script

robsonde · #1 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

how can I get the current standard epoch time (seconds from 1970) in a shell script?

I know I could do this with a bit of perl of even c++ but i want to do it in Bourne shell.....

reborg · #2 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

date +%s should give you that.

robsonde · #3 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by reborg

date +%s should give you that.

only with GNU date ,which we dont run on solaris systems :-(

Perderabo · #4 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

Recent Solaris versions have perl.

perl -e 'print time(), "\n" '

jlliagre · #5 (**permalink**) 03-18-2008

And when perl is missing there is still nawk:

Code:

nawk 'BEGIN{print srand()}'

robsonde · #6 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre

And when perl is missing there is still nawk:

Code:

nawk 'BEGIN{print srand()}'

very cool, thanks

McLan · #7 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008

HTML Code:

perl -e 'print time(), "\n" '  prints only epoch of system time
How to get epoch of some other time than current system time?
for example I want to know the epoch of Jan 1 2000, 00hrs 00 min 00 seconds

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