Hi All,
Is it possible to run date -d option in Solaris?
Do we have a work around so that -d option will be recognized
by solaris as it is recognized by linux.
I need this since i am using this in scripting and it works in Linux box. my problem is
it doesn't work in solaris box.
... (6 Replies)
hello. i have a script, but in solaris i get this message sed: illegal option -- i
whats wrong? With Ubuntu there is no problem. Thanks for help.
#!/bin/bash
for file in $(find /directory..../Test/*.txt -type f)
do
head -n 1 $file | egrep '^#!'
if
then
sed -i '2i\Headertext'... (3 Replies)
I'm trying to get the size of each file, but when I try to use
stat -c %s <file>
I get the message
stat: illegal option -- c
Also, the man page for stat shows readlink,stat. It doesn't seem to match the man pages I've seen online.
what is going on here? (6 Replies)
For some reason read -e isn't working in my script. I need a directory as input from a user and I'd like for them to be able to use tab complete which is why I'm using -e. When the script is run, I get:
read: line 6: illegal option -e
In order to just figure out what is going on with the -e... (4 Replies)
current date command runs well
awk -v t="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat
subtract 30 days fails
awk -v t="$(date --date="-30days" +%Y-%m-%d)" -F "'" '$1 < t' myname.dat
awk command in hp unix subtract 30 days automatically from current date without date illegal option error... (20 Replies)
Discussion started by: kmarcus
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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)