1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am starting a process at 9 pm today and want to exit the process by 5am, the next day. Every day at 9pm the shell script will be invoked by autosys. But how can i monitor in my script for 5 am and stop the process ? there may be a case where the script can start at 4.59 am and... (4 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello All, I was having a look on threads on the Forum about time calculation but didn't find exactly this issue. For instance, if we have these 2 dates, begin & end : 20100430235830 20100501000200 Is there anyway, awk, ksh, perl to calculate the difference in sec and get for... (6 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, Below is the backup file name (includes date & time) : exp_trx_tables_18_Oct_2010_10_59_00.dmp Extracted date and time from the file name as below using the below "awk"command: date 18-Oct-2010 and time 10:59:00 echo "$fname" | awk -F"_" '{printf "Records will be restored as on... (1 Reply)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have start and finish date in the following format - Start Date: 5/21/2010 9:14:00 AM End Date : 5/24/2010 7:23:00 AM I need to get the time difference in the following format :mm or . Any help would be really appreciated. Thank you! (3 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I am trying to use the script as under : echo "Please input the string (APC) in the format (APC=x-yyy-z):" read a for i in m1 m2 m4 m5 m6 do cat /m12/$i/12* | grep -B 1 -A 1 inaccessible | gawk '/'$a'/{print $6,$7,$8,x};{x=$3" "$4}' | awk NF > temp cat /m122/$i/12* | grep -B 1 -A 1... (0 Replies)

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

I have a file wich contains time formats and i need to get the time difference TIME1 TIME2 ================================== 20120624192555.6Z 20120624204006.5Z which means first date 2012/6/24 19:25:55,second date 2012/6/24 20:40:06 so when i get the time... (1 Reply)

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

================================================================================ Request ID GMDCOM TIME GMDRRS TIME COM-RRS ================================================================================ <36812974> Tue Oct 1 13:32:40 2013 Tue Oct 1 20:36:42 2013... (1 Reply)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Request ID GMDCOMTM GMDRRSTIME GMDRESTIME <36812986> : : :I want to display the date -time difference in other fields. Above I have given for only 1 record. I want to calculate for all the records. (GMCOMTM - GMDRRSTM) ,(GMDRRSTM-GMDRESTM) and... (5 Replies)

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

There are 2 dates, Tue Oct 1 13:40:19 2013 Sun Sept 30 10:26:23 2013 I have multiple dates like the above one. How do I calculate the date time difference and display in another column in Shell script. Please help. (3 Replies)

10. AIX

Hi Everyone, We are having an issue with date and date -u in our AIX Systems. We have checked environment variable TZ and /etc/environment and however, we could not rectify the difference. >date Thu Mar 19 22:31:40 IST 2015 >date -u Thu Mar 19 17:01:44 GMT 2015 Any clue... (5 Replies)