Unfortunately, date does not immediately recognize your format. Depending on your bash and date versions, the request can be fulfilled in two - admittedly a bit complex - lines:
Hi I am very new to scripting,
Can someone show me how to (in unix shell script) compare the system's date with a date in a file. The requirement is to somehow open this file (which will only have a date in it) and compare it with today's date. If they are equal execute a procedure below but if... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Any idea to get display of date - n ( n=1,2,3,4 etc) ?
For example , dtoudt will easily execute by dtoudt -3 and result is
>dtoudt -3
1234852529 Date 2009-2-17 time 14:35:29 day 47
How to get it display in 20090217 instead ?
Maybe you have other suggestion to display date... (0 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I was working some time ago n was in need to calculate date 30/31 days from today including Feb (Leap yr stuff). Today date is variable depending on day of execution of script. I tried searching but was not able to get exactly what I needed....So at that I time I implemented by my own... (3 Replies)
Hello - I have written the following basic shell script to count files, compare files and look for a particular strings in a file.
Problem 1: How do I define more than 1 file location?
#!/bin/bash
#this is a test script
FILES=$(ls /home/student/bin/dir1, home/student/bin/dir2)... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I am trying to show today's date and time in a better format than ‘date' (Using positional parameters). I found a command mktime and am wondering if this is the best command to use or will this also show me the time elapse since 1/30/70? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks... (3 Replies)
I was wondering the best way about finding files that were created today and copy them to a directory (grep ?). There can be multiple files for todays date or none. I am looking to copy all of the .lis files for todays date. I may need to modify the filename to include todays date but for the... (4 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file like this:
2012112920121130
12345620121130msABowwiqiq
34477420121129amABamauee
e7748420121130ehABeheheei
in case the content of the file has the date of yesterday within the lines containing pattern AB this should be replaced by the current date. But if I use... (3 Replies)
Hi,
One of my Unix scripts needs to look for files coming in on Fridays. This script runs on Mondays. $date +"%y%m%d" will give me today's date. How can I get previous Friday's date.. can I do "today's date minus 3 days" to get Friday's date? If not, then any other way?? Name of the files is... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have file with number status and date1 and date1 field,
want add a column today between column date1 and date2.
file1.txt
number status date1 date2
===== ==== === =====
34567 open 27/06/13 28/06/13
45678 open 27/06/13 28/06/13
43567 open 27/06/13 28/06/13 ... (1 Reply)
hi all,
How to compare two files whether they are same are not...? like i had my input files as 20141201_file.txt and 20141130_file2.txt
how to compare the above files based on date .. like todays file and yesterdays file...? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: hemanthsaikumar
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)