Is there an easy method to do an on the fly conversion of a standard epoch time (seconds from 1970) to more readable date format?
Does Unix have anything built in to do this? (4 Replies)
hello gurus,
i want a perl/shell script which once invoked should convert a set of EPOCH timestamps to local time ( IST..i want) .
how does it work ,i have an idea on that..but writing a perl/shell script for it is not possible for me...so i need help for the same.
my exact requirement is... (2 Replies)
how can I get the current standard epoch time (seconds from 1970) in a shell script?
I know I could do this with a bit of perl of even c++ but i want to do it in Bourne shell..... (14 Replies)
I need to convert an epoch time from a file into a standard UTC time and output it in the same format but I'm not sure what's the best approach
here's the input file and the bold part is what I need to convert.
1,1,"sys1",60,300000
2,"E:",286511144960
3,1251194521,"E:",0,0... (2 Replies)
I need shell or Perl script to get the epoch time automatically
Example I need to execute mysql command to delete content less then given epoch time
If date is 01-07-2010 (dd-mm-yy) epoch should be lees 7 days mean 23-06-2010 for 23-06-2010 I need epoch time
Delete BS_table where... (1 Reply)
Dear experts,
I have an epoch time input file such as : -
1302451209564
1302483698948
1302485231072
1302490805383
1302519244700
1302492787481
1302505299145
1302506557022
1302532112140
1302501033105
1302511536485
1302512669550
I need the epoch time above to be converted into real... (4 Replies)
I am trying get time difference of two dates in secs. Initially I want to convert a standard date format to epoch for two dates and then subtract the two epoch dates.
Example :
date -d "2007-09-01 17:30:40" '+%s'
But this gives me below error
date: illegal option -- d
Usage: date
OS: AIX... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
Please read the below data carefully.
I need an unix command for converting unix timestamp to Epoch timestamp.
I need to daily convert this today's unix(UTC) time to epoch time, so i am thinking to make a shellscript for this.
Please help me for this by providing... (3 Replies)
Hi there
I'm using this script to convert command line history with Epoch time stamp to human readable. While it works fine with users with /bin/csh shell, it fails to convert for users with /bin/bash shell. Why is this happening? I even changed and added * and after the # but it still didnt... (2 Replies)
Hi. I have timestamps that I am trying to convert to epoch time. An example:
I am trying to convert this to an epoch timestamp but have one little glitch. I have this:
import time
date_time = ''
pattern = ''
epoch = int(time.mktime(time.strptime(date_time, pattern)))
print epoch... (1 Reply)
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)