That explained why I did not see the return values.
But the command output is still printed.
Probably the command function is not what I need.
I just read that the command function just executes the command and only delivers the exit value of the command executed.
Perhaps I can make use of this.
I do not need the date output, that was just as an example.
I only need an integer, so I will try to use the exit value for this.
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As I have control over the exit value of the command executed, I can have the output go to "> /dev/null 2&>1".
Then with "WEXITSTATUS" I can parse the exit value to my variable.
Hi,
I am presently stuck in a csv file.
INPUT CSV
baseball,NULL,8798765,Most played
baseball,NULL,8928192,Most played
baseball,NULL,5678945,Most played
cricket,NOTNULL,125782,Usually played
cricket,NOTNULL,678921,Usually played
EXPECTED OUTPUT CSV
... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a comma (,) delimited file, in which few fields are enclosed with in double quotes " ". I have to print the records in the file which donot have expected number of field with the line number.
File1
====
name,desgnation,doj,project #header#... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I am in middle of one script. I want output in the form of xls file.
There are 4 fields - user name, email Id, full name, date of birth. I want these details to get in seperate columns.
But, i am getting it in the single cell and as like a paragraph.:mad:
Please suggest me some... (8 Replies)
Hi
I have written below script to get the data in table form.
#!/bin/sh
echo "File Name\tType"
for i in *;
do
echo "$i\t\c"
if ; then
echo "directory"
elif ; then
echo "symbolic link"
elif ; then
echo "file"
else
echo "unknown"
fi
donehowever i am getting output in different way... (3 Replies)
Good Moring,
I am currently reading about awk in a manual and following the examples using the oratab file.
My system is SOLARIS 10
I think I am getting strange behavior judging by what the book says to do and what I am getting with my little program.
Here is my program:
grep -v oratab |... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I am practising awk and decided to compare two columns and print the result of the comparison as third column
i/p data
c1,c2,c3
1,a,b
1,b,b
i am trying to compare the last two columns and if they match I am trying to print match else mismatch(Ideally i want that as a last column... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: mkathi
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print and set the date
SYNOPSIS
date [-nu] [-d dst] [-t timezone] [yymmddhhmm [.ss] ]
DESCRIPTION
If no arguments are given, the current date and time are printed. Providing an argument will set the desired date; only the superuser can
set the date. The -d and -t flags set the kernel's values for daylight savings time and minutes west of GMT. If dst is non-zero, future
calls to gettimeofday(2) will return a non-zero tz_dsttime. Timezone provides the number of minutes returned by future calls to gettimeof-
day(2) in tz_minuteswest. The -u flag is used to display or set the date in GMT (universal) time. yy represents the last two digits of
the year; the first mm is the month number; dd is the day number; hh is the hour number (24 hour system); the second mm is the minute num-
ber; .ss is optional and represents the seconds. For example:
date 8506131627
sets the date to June 13 1985, 4:27 PM. The year, month and day may be omitted; the default values will be the current ones. The system
operates in GMT. Date takes care of the conversion to and from local standard and daylight-saving time.
If timed(8) is running to synchronize the clocks of machines in a local area network, date sets the time globally on all those machines
unless the -n option is given.
FILES
/usr/adm/wtmp to record time-setting. In /usr/adm/messages, date records the name of the user setting the time.
SEE ALSO gettimeofday(2), utmp(5), timed(8),
TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD, R. Gusella and S. Zatti
DIAGNOSTICS
Exit status is 0 on success, 1 on complete failure to set the date, and 2 on successfully setting the local date but failing globally.
Occasionally, when timed synchronizes the time on many hosts, the setting of a new time value may require more than a few seconds. On
these occasions, date prints: `Network time being set'. The message `Communication error with timed' occurs when the communication between
date and timed fails.
BUGS
The system attempts to keep the date in a format closely compatible with VMS. VMS, however, uses local time (rather than GMT) and does not
understand daylight-saving time. Thus, if you use both UNIX and VMS, VMS will be running on GMT.
4th Berkeley Distribution March 24, 1987 DATE(1)