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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Time difference Post 302216784 by fpmurphy on Monday 21st of July 2008 06:52:47 AM
Old 07-21-2008
In the following code snippet you are trying to subtract one datestring from another
Code:
days_old=`echo $(($today - $created))`

e.g. 20080721 - 20060328. This is not how you calculate date differences. Have a look in the FAQs on this site for "Date Arithmetic" for further information on how to actually calculate the difference between two dates.
 

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pnmarith(1)                                                   General Commands Manual                                                  pnmarith(1)

NAME
pnmarith - perform arithmetic on two portable anymaps SYNOPSIS
pnmarith -add|-subtract|-multiply|-difference|-minimum|-maximum. pnmfile1 pnmfile2 DESCRIPTION
Reads two portable anymaps as input. Performs the specified arithmetic operation, and produces a portable anymap as output. The two input anymaps must be the same width and height. The arithmetic is performed between corresponding pixels in the two anymaps, as if maxval was 1.0, black was 0.0, and a linear scale in between. Results that fall outside of [0..1) are truncated. The operator -difference calculates the absolute value of pnmarith -subtract pnmfile1 pnmfile2, i.e. no truncation is done. All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. SEE ALSO
pbmmask(1), pnmpaste(1), pnminvert(1), pnm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Jef Poskanzer. Lightly modified by Marcel Wijkstra <wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl> 26 August 1993 pnmarith(1)
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