Hi ...
I am trying to calculate the time needed for a command to execute..
but the resulting value is getting as string..
so i am not able to use "expr " command..
please help me to convert the value to integer so that i can proceed with my script..
Regards
esham (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I'm trying to convert a decimal number into an integer number; I'm doing this:
n=`echo |awk '{ print "'"$mem"'"*10}'`
where the variable mem is equal to 3.7
I'd like to obtain 37, but the expression above gives me 30.
Help please!!!!
thx a lot (4 Replies)
Hi,
I am passing a variable to a unix function.
However when I try to assign the value to another variable like
typeset -i I_CACHE_VAL=$2
Is this because of String to Integer conversion?
I get an error.
Please help me with thsi.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I would like to know how to convert an integer to a string. for instance if i=1 i would like to creat a variable called constant1. i want to do this in a for loop so for each value of i, i create a new variable such as constant2, constant3,... and so on.
for i in 1 2 3
do ... (1 Reply)
The shell mentioned below will show a warning if the page takes more than 6 seconds to load.
The problem is that myduration variable is not an integer. How do I convert it to integer?
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I have 2 questions.
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I have a function that is supposed to check for user processes and wait for 0 count before exiting the function. I am sure I have more than one issue in my code, but the stumbling block right now is that I am trying to convert the value of my variable from a string to integer.
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Hi guys,
I'm new here. I have a problem at work. One of our scripts was eventually having a bug and only detected recently. Here's the issue and background:
Bash Script which calls AWK script
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Hello,
How can we convert date like format 20181004171050 in seconds ?
I can able to convert till date but failing for HHMMSS.
date -d "20181004" "+%s" output as 1538596800 .
But when i add hhmmss it is failing date -d "20181004172000" "+%s" result Invalid date
Kindly guide.
Regards (16 Replies)
Discussion started by: sadique.manzar
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)