I am not sure what exactly you trying to a accomplish, however, to know the duration for any task e.g to view a text file using cat use the command time before any task
hope this helps
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I have a file which has 3 coloumns emp_name, Joining_date, Designation.
abc 12/1/2001 SSE
def 2/25/2007 SE
ghi 3/18/2009 SA
abc 8/1/2008 SSE
def 2/13/2007 SE
ghi 3/24/2005 SA
I need to find out the emp who has been in the company for longest period(Till date).
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hi, i'm trying to figure out how to tell the amount of time a ufsdump of a directory takes. i use the below command:
echo "Starting Backup of u4" >> /backup/backup.log 2>&1
/usr/sbin/ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0n /u4 >> /backup/backup.log 2>&1
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Hello forum, i would like to ask if there's a way to view the remaining time of copying files (talking about copying gigabytes) while the cp commnad is running.
I'm using OpenBSD 4.9 -stable.
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Hi,
I am looking to write a script to kill the process which are running for more than 7 days.
So i have a command like
"ps -eo pid,etime,args | grep -i xxxx" ( process which has xxx in it and running for more than 7 days needs to be killed ).
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I have used the arecord command like this
arecord -d 1 test.wav
It is keep on waiting. I need to manually interrupt it by ctrl-c. Why it is not interrupting after one second?
The arecord version which I am using is :
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Hello All,
I have two strings with date and time as follows..
$starttime= "06/11/2013 ";
$starttime= "05:15";
$enddate="06/12/2013";
$endtime="04:45";
dates are in mm/dd/yyyy format and time in military format.
and I am looking the duration of time(in minutes) in between dates.
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I have a file with time in it. I need to find the duration between the timestamp by subtracting second row from third row and so on. and wherever it is more than 30 minutes it should display start and end time which have been subtracted
file :
00:44:11
00:44:11
00:44:13
00:44:13
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did this function to generate the duration of all the video files in a folder or multiple folders, it works fine for my use (I am no Guru as you may have noticed) but when I give it a lot of folders the calculation get a bit borked.
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