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 (){
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Ok, i've been messing around in debian the past few days, setting up programs like subversion, mysql and logrotate. The purpose of this script is to use subversion to backup the binary logs. It runs in the cron every 2 hours or so (although I can't get my script to run properly atm, which is why... (1 Reply)
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
I have standard web server log file. It contains different columns (like IP address, request result code, request type etc) including a date column with the format .
I have developed a log analysis command line utility that displays... (1 Reply)
I just put together a script for work that will essentially automate the migration of our Windows fileserver to my newly created Debian based SAMBA server.
My script will create the necessary directories then copy the data over to my new server, after that it will set the ACL's by using... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I need a script to do some date/time conversion. It should take as an input a particular time. It should then generates a series of offsets, in both hour:minute form and number of milliseconds elapsed.
For 03:00, for example, it should give back 04:02:07 (3727000ms*) 05:04:14... (2 Replies)
I'm looking for a way to have the "date" command output the date in a specific format.
I'm not familiar with the different ways to use the date command at all. i read up on it, but i dont get how to manipulate it.
i know that i can get the date format to give me a format like:
2012-10-13... (6 Replies)
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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)
i have file 1.txt
asdas|csada|13|03|10|04|23|A1|canberra
sdasd|sfdsf|13|04|26|23|28|A1|sydney
i want to add today's date and time in the end of each row
expected output
asdas|csada|13|03|10|04|23|A1|canberra|130430|1358
sdasd|sfdsf|13|04|26|23|28|A1|sydney|130430|1358
todays date... (10 Replies)
Dear all,
I am kindly seeking assistance on the following issue.
I am working with data that is sampled every 0.05 hours (that is 3 minutes intervals) here is a sample data from the file
5.00000 15.5030
5.05000 15.6680
5.10000 16.0100
5.15000 16.3450
5.20000 16.7120
5.25000... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: malandisa
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