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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Solaris compared to Windows Post 25182 by peter.herlihy on Thursday 25th of July 2002 06:39:06 PM
Old 07-25-2002
I agree with RTM, and in a nutshell the way I explain it to those not familiar is that Unix (which is presumably what they mean when they say they use Solaris - although could be another flavour).....is an Operating System with a lot more freedom.

Unix is not a graphical interface so you're not resticted by what the GUI delvelopers have decided you will want to do.

One aspect of Unix is similar to Windows Explorer (in terms of managing file systems) you can complete the same stuff such as creating directories, moving, copying files, searching for files or strings within files, setting file and directory permissions etc)

The file system management is probably only about 1% of what you can use unix for - other aspects include scripting (writing programs - and this can be unix script - or other languages perl, java, C++ etc) - automating tasks through scheduling, interfacing with databases....I could go on and on....

I was in your shoes a few years ago...and this forum will help you learn more than you would imagine. Have a cruise around the forums and see what different people use Unix for...and Good Luck. Oh yeah tell them that you don't know too much about Unix but that you've been looking at this forum and other places on the net....they'll love the initiative...!
 

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DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)

NAME
DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix - Convert DateTimes to/from Unix epoch seconds SYNOPSIS
use DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix; my $dt = DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->parse_datetime( 1051488000 ); # 2003-04-28T00:00:00 DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->format_datetime($dt); # 1051488000 my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix->new(); my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 ); $formatter->format_datetime($dt2); DESCRIPTION
This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since the Unix epoch. METHODS
Most of the methods are the same as those in DateTime::Format::Epoch. The only difference is the constructor. o new() Constructor of the formatter/parser object. It has no parameters. SUPPORT
Support for this module is provided via the datetime@perl.org email list. See http://lists.perl.org/ for more details. AUTHOR
Eugene van der Pijll <pijll@gmx.net> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003 Eugene van der Pijll. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
DateTime datetime@perl.org mailing list perl v5.10.1 2007-12-03 DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix(3pm)
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