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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to compare two strings Post 302226975 by Niroj on Wednesday 20th of August 2008 09:28:35 AM
Old 08-20-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by otheus
You are making it too hard on yourself. Use
Code:
date +%s

Which gives you the time in seconds.

If you need to get the greater/lesser of the date strings, you can instead use the date command as you have it, pipe it through sort, and then use tail -1 (greater) or head -1 (lesser).

Code:
{ date -u '+%Y.%m.%d %T'; sleep 1; date -u '+%Y.%m.%d %T'; } |sort | head -1

SmilieThat is good but I used the way how Prashant tried.. so tht he can find wht is the prob in his string comp approach..
 

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sttime(3)						    ShapeTools Toolkit Library							 sttime(3)

NAME
stMktime, stWriteTime - date and time handling SYNOPSIS
#include <config.h> #include <sttk.h.h> time_tstMktime (char *string); char*stWriteTime (time_t date); DESCRIPTION
stMktime scans the given string and tries to read a date and time from it. It understands various formats of date strings. The following is a list of all valid formats, optional parts in brackets. [Tue] Jan 5[,] [19]93 This includes the standard asctime(3) format. Jan 5 With no year given, the year defaults to the current year. [19]93/01/05 This notation requires month and day represented by exactly two digits. 5.1.[19]93 This is the usual German notation. 5.1. German notation referencing the current year. A certain time, given together with the date must always have the following form. hours:minutes[:seconds] Each of the fields must be an integer value within the proper range (hours: 0-23, minutes and seconds: 0-59). Values below 10 may be written as one digit numbers. The time value may be placed anywhere in the date string: at the beginning, at the end, or somewhere in the middle. Any amount of white- space may be given between a field of the time value and the separating colon. The time is always considered to be local time. stWriteTime generates a time string similar to asctime(3) from its date argument. SEE ALSO
asctime(3) BUGS
Time Zone Names within the time string (like `MET') are not handled properly. In most cases they will cause a failure. sttk-1.7 Thu Jun 24 17:43:35 1993 sttime(3)
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