With the shell in busybox you should be able to do something like:
If that shows you a set of mv commands that do what you need to do, remove the echo and run it again to actually rename the files.
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The GNU date command in full of goodies but not when it comes to calculate a date or time difference. Here is what I came up with after looking to more than one solution.
Code should be self explaining.
#!/bin/bash
date2stamp () {
date --utc --date "$1" +%s
}
stamp2date (){
... (0 Replies)
Hi all!
I'm working on a HPUX system, and I was wondering if there is a simple way to convert a date from seconds (since 1970) to a normal date.
Thanks (2 Replies)
i have a script that grep for today date
a=`date +"%F"`--------greps current/today date
wat if suppose i want to grep a date for yesterday...
how to do that using the above format: i,e 2008-01-20 (4 Replies)
Hi guys,
I have some embedded perl within my shell script to get me the modification time/date of a file which returns me the following string:
Fri May 1 09:52:58 2009
I have managed to get the bits i need such as 1-May-2009, but what i would prefer is 010509 instead...
Here is my... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
i have used the search already before someone shouts at me and i have seen the 'datecalc' program but this is not working correctly for me in the shell and environment i am using.
I am using solaris 10 and bourne shell.
I have two dates '07-04-2009' and '05-05-2009'. I just need to... (2 Replies)
Hi Gurus,
Please help in this shell script.
x=000
y=`expr $x + 1`
echo $y
which gives me the value as 1
How can i get the value as 001 in this shell script. As i am new to scripting stuck up here.
Requesting here help here (2 Replies)
Hello all!
This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix:
... (16 Replies)
There is a closed Thread: <url>Here will be the url to the original post once I have 5 posts in this forum...</url>
But a small bug had found his way into this very cool and simple code.
#!/bin/bash date2stamp () { date --utc --date "$1" +%s } stamp2date (){ date --utc --date... (2 Replies)
Hi ,
Here is the smaller version of the problem.
Working individually as command
************************>echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
************************>TO_DAY=`date`
************************>echo $TO_DAY
Tue Jul 16 02:28:31 EDT 2013
************************>
Not working when... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to do a simple math calc during a shell script as a means of logging how long a particular task takes.
For example...
STARTTIME=whenever this script starts
./path/to/command.sh >>logfile.log
TOTALTIME=<time at this stage of the script after above command... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
fprintf
FPRINTF(3) 1 FPRINTF(3)fprintf - Write a formatted string to a streamSYNOPSIS
int fprintf (resource $handle, string $format, [mixed $args], [mixed $...])
DESCRIPTION
Write a string produced according to $format to the stream resource specified by $handle.
PARAMETERS
o $handle
-A file system pointer resource that is typically created using fopen(3).
o $format
- See sprintf(3) for a description of $format.
o $args
-
o $...
-
RETURN VALUES
Returns the length of the string written.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
fprintf(3): zero-padded integers
<?php
if (!($fp = fopen('date.txt', 'w'))) {
return;
}
fprintf($fp, "%04d-%02d-%02d", $year, $month, $day);
// will write the formatted ISO date to date.txt
?>
Example #2
fprintf(3): formatting currency
<?php
if (!($fp = fopen('currency.txt', 'w'))) {
return;
}
$money1 = 68.75;
$money2 = 54.35;
$money = $money1 + $money2;
// echo $money will output "123.1";
$len = fprintf($fp, '%01.2f', $money);
// will write "123.10" to currency.txt
echo "wrote $len bytes to currency.txt";
// use the return value of fprintf to determine how many bytes we wrote
?>
SEE ALSO printf(3), sprintf(3), sscanf(3), fscanf(3), vsprintf(3), number_format(3).
PHP Documentation Group FPRINTF(3)