hi all:
i want to store the current date in to a file from a program.
every time i execute the prg the date should get appended into the file.
help me plz (2 Replies)
I have a stream of data come to a server and store in a file (datafile). This stream of data contain a lot of information. Data could come in every second or different frequency of times.
I like to retrieve a certain text string as the data come in. All data information will come with the... (1 Reply)
Hi all
I need help on how to store two or more date formates captured using regex from an input sentence in PERL ? For example, I have an input sentence consisting of two dates such as :
The departure date is August 12, 2009 and arrival date is 20.08.2009.
Now, I want to capture the two... (4 Replies)
Hey guys, i just started shell programming and i have a question. I am working on a simple inventory project and one of the problems which i am unable to solve would be how i am going to extract the data i need from a text file(which will be my database) and then put it inside the executable to be... (5 Replies)
Hi ,
I need to retreive the file name in an variable on the ftp server.Can you guy please let me know how can i do that.I need some thing like
connect to ftp <<eof
new_variable=`ls *_1_AUDIT.txt *_2_AUDIT.txt` (but on a ftp server)
mget $new_variable
>>eof (1 Reply)
Dear All,
I have a question.
I have similarly named files stored in different directories and I'd like to retreive information from them remotely to perform other tasks. For example given:
Folder 5 has files S5_SK1.chr01 S5_SK1.chr02 .......
Folder 6 has files S6_SK1.chr01 ... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am new to UNIX.
My Requirement: Need to connect to Oracle database from UNIX and execute an SELECT statement and store the records in a flatfile of Comma delimiter.
What I have Succeeded: I was able to connect to Oracle from UNIX.
Problem: I cannot fetch multiple... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I want to retrieve a part of the mail ID.
Im using Ksh.
The mail ID's i handle are of the type:
abc.def@ghi.com
I want the abc part alone.
Here is the code i used:
a=`echo $mailid |sed 's/\(.*\)..../\1/'`
echo $a
but the output i get is abc.def@ghi
I dont know... (2 Replies)
I am writing the code in perl.
I have an array in perl and each variable in the array contains the data in the below format
Now I need to check the below variable w.r.t system month I need to store the date and time(Tue Aug 7 03:54:12 2012) from the below data into file if contains only 'Aug'... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have one file 1.txt with one field consist of following Ids (shortlisted 10 but showing 3 here):
00052
00184
00607
and then second file 2.txt with three fields (very big file):
00052 00184 12.73062
00052 00598 13.51205
00052 00599 13.92554
00052 00600 13.73358... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: bioinfo
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)