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Operating Systems HP-UX Comparing the timestamp of the file to current time Post 302938927 by haadiya on Friday 20th of March 2015 05:26:47 AM
Old 03-20-2015
Hello Ravi,

Im on hp unix which doesn't support mmin option ,and my filename is dynamic i dont know the file name.what im trying to do is

1) Run the script every 2 hours and check if the last file generated was more than 2 hours old.
below are my tries

Last file = ` ls -ltr | awk '{print $9}' | tail -1`
Time of Last file = ` ls -ltr | awk '{print $6,$7,$8}'|tail -1`

Compare with current time to see if its older than 2 hours or not

2) If there is a latest file generated which is not older than 2 hours, check if the latest file is empty.
empty means -
If 'cat filename | wc -l" = 0 (zero lines in the file)

if empty do something

Im working on building this
 

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timetrans

TIMETRANS(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     TIMETRANS(1p)

NAME

       timetrans - Converts time into time

SYNOPSIS

	 timetrans [units-options] [-count]

DESCRIPTION

       timetrans converts time from one type of unit to another.  If any of the units options are specified, then timetrans will convert those
       time units into the number of seconds to which they add up.  If given the count option, timetrans will convert that number of seconds into
       the appropriate number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.  The converted result is printed out.  Units options cannot be
       specified in the same execution as the count option, and vice versa.

       timetrans is intended for use with DNSSEC-Tools, for calculating a zone's expiration time.

OPTIONS

   Units Options
       The converted value of each unit is totaled and a single result printed.

       -seconds seconds
	   Count of seconds to convert to seconds.

       -minutes minutes
	   Count of minutes to convert to seconds.

       -hours hours
	   Count of hours to convert to seconds.

       -days days
	   Count of days to convert to seconds.

       -weeks weeks
	   Count of weeks to convert to seconds.

   Count Option
       The specified seconds count is converted to the appropriate number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

       -count seconds
	   Count of seconds to convert to the appropriate set of units.

   Other Options
       timetrans has the following miscellaneous options.

       -Version
	   Displays the version information for timetrans and the DNSSEC-Tools package.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1:  Converting 5 days into seconds

	   $(42)> timetrans -days 5
	   432000

       Example 2:  Converting 2 weeks into seconds

	   $(43)> timetrans -w 2
	   1209600

       Example 3:  Converting 8 days and 8 hours into seconds

	   $(44)> timetrans -d 8 -hours 8
	   720000

       Example 4:  Converting 1 week, 1 day, and 8 hours into seconds

	   $(46)> timetrans -w 1 -days 1 -h 8
	   720000

       Example 5:  Converting 14 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, and 8 seconds into seconds

	   $(47)> timetrans -w 14 -d 4 -h 21 -m 8 -s 8
	   8888888

       Example 6:  Converting 720000 seconds into time units

	   $(48)> timetrans -c 720000
	   1 week, 1 day, 8 hours

       Example 7:  Converting 1814421 seconds into time units

	   $(49)> timetrans -c 1814421
	   3 weeks, 21 seconds

       Example 8:  Converting 8888888 seconds into time units

	   $(50)> timetrans -c 8888888
	   14 weeks, 4 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes, 8 seconds

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2004-2012 SPARTA, Inc.  All rights reserved.  See the COPYING file included with the DNSSEC-Tools package for details.

AUTHOR

       Wayne Morrison, tewok@tislabs.com

SEE ALSO

       zonesigner(8)

       Net::DNS::SEC::Tools::timetrans.pm(3)

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