Originally posted by franklo Meaning...I need a simple unix script that I can run as crone that takes as variable the url of another server and makes my server's time that of the other server plus 2 seconds. So if it is there 9:00 pm, my server's time becomes 21:00:02
Hmmm. At first I thought this was going to be a humdinger. This is how I solved the problem of having offset time by +2 seconds:
Give it a try, your mileage may vary. I checked this out on a FreeBSD 4.5 system. This should be in your cronjob shell script right after sync'ing the time of the box. You will probably lose several tenths of a second. I don't know how accurate you have to have your clock sync'd to the server and this might be of some consideration.
Another important note is to not execute the cronjob near midnight. If for some reason the time sync'd at 23:59:59 the above shell script would be bad as the actual date wouldn't change, but the time would be 00:00:01 of the same day, effectively setting the time back almost 24 hours.
hi All
Why is #!/bin/sh being used in most of the ksh scripts......?
I have seen this (#!/bin/sh) being used at the start of the script
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Suresh (2 Replies)
Hi
I have a file which looks like this
//string = "abcd"; //info
//string = "*pqrs"; //add
string = "#123"; //sub
//string = "#1234567890"
data = check(string)
//string = "#1234567890"
I want to modify this as
string = "#987"; //mult
data = check(string)
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I have to extract a column from a file and then updated that column..??
Now i can use wak for extracting it and then how to update it..
$ awk' {print $5}' input_file
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i Am using the below query and printing the $8 and $9 filed..
find /A/B/C/{1,3,5,7} -name "*.txt" -o -name "*.csv" -o -name "*.TXT" -o -name "*.dat" |xargs ls -ltr |awk '{print $8 ,$9}' > result.xls
this give me the rsult like below..
2008/home/ADMIN/om/1.txt
2008/home/ADMIN/om/hi.txt
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I have put a query in a thread but didn't get any reply. Hoping to get a reply here.
I have a file in that one line resembles like below...
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I am executing the ls command to show the contents of a folder,
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The result for 'grep "cert_codes" /develop/sales/appl.srce/*.4gl' command will be saved at aa.txt
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Hi,
I am using this code in order to automate a commands in DB:
begin
for i in 0..23 loop
dbms_output.put_line (
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sleepenh
SLEEPENH(1) General Commands Manual SLEEPENH(1)NAME
sleepenh - an enhanced sleep program.
SYNOPSIS
sleepenh [initial-time] sleep-time
DESCRIPTION
sleepenh is a program that can be used when there is a need to execute some functions periodically in a shell script. It was not designed
to be accurate for a single sleep, but to be accurate in a sequence of consecutive sleeps.
After a successful execution, it returns to stdout the timestamp it finished running, that can be used as initial-time to a successive exe-
cution of sleepenh.
OPTIONS
There are no command line options. Run it without any option to get a brief help and version.
ARGUMENTS
sleep-time is a real number in seconds, with microseconds resolution (1 minute, 20 seconds and 123456 microseconds would be 80.123456).
initial-time is a real number in seconds, with microseconds resolution. This number is system dependent. In GNU/Linux systems, it is the
number of seconds since midnight 1970-01-01 GMT. Do not try to get a good value of initial-time. Use the value supplied by a previous exe-
cution of sleepenh.
If you don't specify initial-time, it is assumed the current-time.
EXIT STATUS
An exit status greater or equal to 10 means failure. Known exit status:
0 Success.
1 Success. There was no need to sleep. (means that initial-time + sleep-time was greater than current-time).
10 Failure. Missing command line arguments.
11 Failure. Did not receive SIGALRM.
12 Failure. Argument is not a number.
13 Failure. System error, could not get current time.
USAGE EXAMPLE
Suppose you need to send the char 'A' to the serial port ttyS0 every 4 seconds. This will do that:
#!/bin/sh
TIMESTAMP=`sleepenh 0`
while true; do
# send the byte to ttyS0
echo -n "A" > /dev/ttyS0;
# just print a nice message on screen
echo -n "I sent 'A' to ttyS0, time now is ";
sleepenh 0;
# wait the required time
TIMESTAMP=`sleepenh $TIMESTAMP 4.0`;
done
HINT
This program can be used to get the current time. Just execute:
sleepenh 0
BUGS
It is not accurate for a single sleep. Short sleep-times will also not be accurate.
SEE ALSO date(1), sleep(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Pedro Zorzenon Neto.
2008/04/20 SLEEPENH(1)