"Not allowed" is a peculiar way to put it. Why not? If you have stat you almost certainly have touch -t. Even if you don't have stat, you almost certainly have touch -t.
If you have stat though, that opens up other options. Date strings in "YYYY/MM/DD" order can be compared alphabetically; later times will be greater than earlier times.
Hi, I need a script that loops through all the files two directories
passed to it via parameter, and if two files have the same name, do a
cmp comparison on the files. If the files are different, output the
specifics returned by cmp. What's the best way to go about writing
this, as I am a... (6 Replies)
Say for example I have a list of numbers..
5
10
13
48
1
could I use grep to show only those numbers that are above 10? For various reasons I can only use grep... not awk or sed etc. (7 Replies)
I have two files.And a sort of matrix analysis.
Both files have a string followed by two numbers:
File 1:
A 2 7
B 3 11
C 5 10
......
File 2:
X 1 10
Y 3 5
Z 5 9
What I'd like to do is for each set of numbers in the second file indicate if the first or second number (or both) in... (7 Replies)
So, I have no formal higher education in programming at all and am self taught. I am now wondering what would be considered best practices? Like should I hard code a variable, then compare it to what I want to know or achieve, or should I just put the commands with in the brackets?
Example, a... (5 Replies)
Hi guys,
Im trying to figure out what is the difference between using a | and the command xargs ... examples of usage:
1) ls * | wc -w => this gives you the number of files in the current directory including all subdirectories
2) find . “*.log” | xargs grep ERROR => this gives... (6 Replies)
Can someone please tell me what is wrong with this stings comparison?
#!/bin/sh
#set -xv
set -u
VAR=$(ping -c 5 -w 10 google.com | grep icmp_req=5 | awk '{print $6}')
echo I like cookies
echo $VAR
if "$VAR" == 'icmp_req=5'
then
echo You Rock
else
echo You Stink
fiThis is the error.... (6 Replies)
I'd love to get help on this one please. Ok so say I have a file called README with lines such as this:
index:index.html
required:file1.1:file2.1:file3.1
I'm having trouble with writing an if statement that compares the items in a list with a file inside README, what I imagine in my head... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have 25 groups and I need to perform all possible pairwise compariosns between them using the formula n(n-1)/2. SO in my case it will be 25(25-1)/2 which is equal to 300 comparisons.
my 25 groups are
FG1 FG2 FG3 FG4 FG5
NT5E CD44 CD44 CD44 AXL
ADAM19 CCDC80 L1CAM L1CAM CD44... (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I want to compare two files based on column value
Kindly help me
a.txt
123,ABCD
456,DEF
789,SDF
b.txt
123,KJI
456,LMN
321,MJK
678,KOL
Output file should be like
Common on both files
c.txt
123,ABCD,KJI (8 Replies)
Here is the sample code:
str1="abccccc"
str2="abc?"
if ]; then
echo "same string"
else
echo "different string"
fi
Given that ? implies 0 or 1 match of preceding character, I was expecting the output to be "different string", but I am seeing "same string".
Am I not using the... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Rameshck
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netsds::util::datetime
NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)NAME
NetSDS::Util::DateTime - common date/time processing routines
SYNOPSIS
use NetSDS::Util::DateTime;
print "Current date: " . date_now();
DESCRIPTION
This package provides set of routines for date and time processing.
EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
date_now_array([TIME])
Returns array of date items for given date. If source date is not set current date used.
date_now([TIME])
Return [given] date as string.
2001-12-23 14:39:53
date_now_iso8601([TIME])
Return date as ISO 8601 string.
20011223T14:39:53Z
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601> http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime>
date_strip(DATE)
Trim miliseconds from date.
date_date(DATE)
Trim time part from date.
date_time(DATE)
Trim date part from date.
time_from_string($string)
Return parsed date/time structure.
date_from_string($string)
Return date from string representation.
date_inc([INCREMENT, [TIME]])
Return date incremented with given number of seconds.
date_inc_string([INCREMENT, [TIME]])
Return string representation of date incremented with given number of seconds.
EXAMPLES
None yet
BUGS
Unknown yet
SEE ALSO
Date::Parse, Date::Format
TODO
Import stuff from Wono project
AUTHOR
Valentyn Solomko <val@pere.org.ua>
Michael Bochkaryov <misha@rattler.kiev.ua>
perl v5.12.4 2011-08-27 NetSDS::Util::DateTime(3pm)