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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers awk script help Post 303036482 by drysdalk on Friday 28th of June 2019 11:23:24 AM
Old 06-28-2019
Hi,

One way to do this would be to take the output of your awk command, and directly use that via command substitution as input for the date command to work on.

In the following example, we have a file containing UNIX timestamps. We want to convert those timestamps to human-readable dates. So we read in each line of the file, get our timestamp, and pass it to the date command.

Code:
$ cat date.txt
Timestamp 1561734809
Timestamp 1561734820
Timestamp 1561734842
$ cat timestamp.sh
#!/bin/bash
for timestamp in `/bin/cat date.txt | /usr/bin/awk '{print $2}'`
do
        /usr/bin/date -d @"$timestamp"
done

$ ./timestamp.sh
Fri Jun 28 16:13:29 BST 2019
Fri Jun 28 16:13:40 BST 2019
Fri Jun 28 16:14:02 BST 2019
$

Note that this example assumes you are using Bash as your shell - if you're using something different, then please provide full information on the nature of your environment.

Hope this helps !
 

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date_sunrise

DATE_SUNRISE(3) 							 1							   DATE_SUNRISE(3)

date_sunrise - Returns time of sunrise for a given day and location

SYNOPSIS

       mixed  date_sunrise  (int   $timestamp, [int  $format = SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING], [float  $latitude = ini_get("date.default_latitude")], [float
       $longitude = ini_get("date.default_longitude")], [float	$zenith = ini_get("date.sunrise_zenith")], [float  $gmt_offset])

DESCRIPTION

       date_sunrise(3) returns the sunrise time for a given day (specified as a $timestamp) and location.

PARAMETERS

	      o $timestamp
		- The $timestamp of the day from which the sunrise time is taken.

	      o $format
		-

	      $format constants

	      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+
	      |       constant	      | 					  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | 		      | 	       description		  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | 		      | 		 example		  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+
	      | SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING   | 					  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | 		      |       returns the result as string	  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | 		      | 		  16:46 		  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | SUNFUNCS_RET_DOUBLE   | 					  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | 		      |        returns the result as float	  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | 		      | 	       16.78243132		  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      |SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP | 					  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | 		      | returns the result as integer (timestamp) |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      | 		      | 	       1095034606		  |
	      | 		      | 					  |
	      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+
	      o $latitude
		- Defaults to North, pass in a negative value for South. See also: date.default_latitude

	      o $longitude
		- Defaults to East, pass in a negative value for West. See also: date.default_longitude

	      o $zenith
		- Default: date.sunrise_zenith

	      o $gmtoffset
		- Specified in hours.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns the sunrise time in a specified $format on success or FALSE on failure.

ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS
	Every call to a date/time function will generate a E_NOTICE if the time zone is not valid, and/or a E_STRICT or E_WARNING message if using
       the system settings or the $TZ environment variable. See also date_default_timezone_set(3)

CHANGELOG

       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
       |Version |						    |
       |	|						    |
       |	|		     Description		    |
       |	|						    |
       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
       | 5.1.0	|						    |
       |	|						    |
       |	|  Now	issues	the E_STRICT and E_NOTICE time zone |
       |	| errors.					    |
       |	|						    |
       +--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      date_sunrise(3) example

	      <?php

	      /* calculate the sunrise time for Lisbon, Portugal
	      Latitude: 38.4 North
	      Longitude: 9 West
	      Zenith ~= 90
	      offset: +1 GMT
	      */

	      echo date("D M d Y"). ', sunrise time : ' .date_sunrise(time(), SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING, 38.4, -9, 90, 1);

	      ?>

	      The above example will output something similar to:

	      Mon Dec 20 2004, sunrise time : 08:54

SEE ALSO

       date_sunset(3).

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