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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need Help on date subtraction Post 302732361 by itkamaraj on Saturday 17th of November 2012 11:00:01 AM
Old 11-17-2012
Code:
$ perl -M"Date::Calc 'Mktime'" -lane 'sub convert{$_[0]=~/(....)(..)(..)(..)(..)(..)/; return Mktime($1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6)}if($.==1){$a=convert $F[0];$first=$_;next}$b=convert $F[0]; print $first." ".$_." ".($b-$a)/60;$first=$_;$a=$b' input.txt
20121029135649 20121029135721 0.533333333333333
20121029135721 20121030091540 1158.31666666667
20121030091540 20121030093420 18.6666666666667
20121030093420 20121030094340 9.33333333333333
20121030094340 20121030095427 10.7833333333333
20121030095427 20121030095856 4.48333333333333
20121030095856 20121030100104 2.13333333333333
20121030100104 20121030100251 1.78333333333333

 

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date::calc::pp

Date::Calc::PP(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 Date::Calc::PP(3)

NAME

       Date::Calc::PP - pure-Perl plug-in for Date::Calc

SYNOPSIS

       You never use this module directly.  Use Date::Calc(3) instead!

DESCRIPTION

       You never use this module directly.  Use Date::Calc(3) instead!

SEE ALSO

       Date::Calc(3), Date::Calc::XS(3).

VERSION

       This man page documents "Date::Calc::PP" version 6.3.

AUTHOR

	 Steffen Beyer
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COPYRIGHT

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LICENSE

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perl v5.18.2							    2009-10-30							 Date::Calc::PP(3)
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