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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding a List of Times Post 302981243 by Brusimm on Thursday 8th of September 2016 08:01:58 PM
Old 09-08-2016
Adding a List of Times
Hey gang, I have a list of times I need to sum up. This list can vary from a few to a few thousand entries. Now I had found a closed reference to adding time titled "add up time with xx:yy format in bash how?" In it, the example works great for that formatted list of times... This is the reply code from user AGAMA in that thread:

Code:
list="1:11 0:13 2:06 1:38 1:36 0:06 0:31 0:33 0:38 0:44"

h=0
m=0
for x in ${list}
do
    h=$(( h + ${x%%:*} ))   # add hours and minutes
    m=$(( m + ${x##*:} ))
done

h=$(( h + (m /60) ))    # minutes are likely more than 60, calc hours and add in 
m=$(( m % 60 ))     # adjust minutes

echo "${h}hrs ${m}min

"

BUT what I'm getting hung up on is how would I introduce the third parameter of seconds to this, if my times had the three columns?

I'm not quite verse enough in scripting to understand the formatting of the read in the 'do' loop. Are the '%' and '#' arbitrary or necessary for what they're representing?

In the other thread Agama tries to explain parameter expansion in a latter reply, but try as I may, I'm not wrapping my shrunken brain around this. I do need a bit of assistance trying to figure it out and adding in the seconds to tally up.

Thank you.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

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)

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-21							     TIMETRANS(1p)
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