1. Shell Programming and Scripting

I am writting a script in the ksh shell and am trying to find a way to report the total execution time of the script without requiring the user to specify the time function when executing the script. Does anyone have any examples they have used. I have been setting up two date variables (one at... (9 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have created a simple shell script... say test.sh Contents of test.sh ================ service named restart cp /etc/imp.conf /backup/test/ #-- if date > 15 July 2007 11:23 pm , then only issue the commans below, else exit --- cp /etc/secondimp.conf /backup/test/ rm -f... (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I need a script which extarct the date and time of the mail which is there in our inbox... I can export the mail copy into desktop making it as a textfile or something like that.. So is there anyway to get the date and time from that? (3 Replies)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello guys, I had been to many forums and many topics in this site as well for my question but did not get any solution. My question is how i can get y'day date with time stamp today is 20100729103819 and i am looking for output as 20100728103819. in simple words as we do in oracle sysdate-1... (4 Replies)

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

hello! I need a date calculation script that need to do that: ./date.sh 20090312 and the script need to give me which day is it for example monday friday or what else! can anyone help me?? its really urgent :S thx the help! (7 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I"m trying to calculate the duration of of backup within a ksh shell script but I get an error. #!/bin/ksh STTIM=`date '+%T'` EDTIM=`date '+%T'` .... .... echo "DURATION OF BACKUP: $((EDTIM - STTIM))" (5 Replies)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I'm having two fields in the file F1|F2 20111220|102000 F1 ->YYYYMMDD F2 ->HHMMSS Now, I need to compare this with current date & time and need to return the difference value in hours. Already, I checked with datecalc from the forum. So, need hints from Shell Gurus. Thanks (10 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

================================================================================ Request ID GMDCOM TIME GMDRRS TIME COM-RRS ================================================================================ <36812974> Tue Oct 1 13:32:40 2013 Tue Oct 1 20:36:42 2013... (1 Reply)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Request ID GMDCOMTM GMDRRSTIME GMDRESTIME <36812986> : : :I want to display the date -time difference in other fields. Above I have given for only 1 record. I want to calculate for all the records. (GMCOMTM - GMDRRSTM) ,(GMDRRSTM-GMDRESTM) and... (5 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

There are 2 dates, Tue Oct 1 13:40:19 2013 Sun Sept 30 10:26:23 2013 I have multiple dates like the above one. How do I calculate the date time difference and display in another column in Shell script. Please help. (3 Replies)