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Operating Systems AIX Change specific (not current) date to timestamp Post 302509140 by Hyperborejac on Wednesday 30th of March 2011 03:54:18 AM
Old 03-30-2011
Change specific (not current) date to timestamp

Hello to all.

I work at AIX system without perl installed and I am restricted user, so I am limited to bash. In script that I am writing, I have to read line from file and transform date that I found inside to Unix timestamp. Line in file look something like this:

Tue Mar 29 06:59:00 GMT+02:00 2011

I wrote script in bash at home doing this transformation with following lines:

...
datum_temp=`echo $DATE_TIME_LINE | awk '{ print $1 " " $2 " " $3 " " $5 " "}' `
FIRST_TIMESTAMP=`date +%s -d"$datum_temp"`
...

However, when I try to do this in AIX it failed, because AIX doesn't have -d . I searched Internet and found solutions with perl, some C templates etc. I really want to keep it simple (if possible), so can you please point me to right direction? Thanks in advance.
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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