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YES!! It Worked :)

Thank you!!

I did that but still received the same output, so:

I tried this:
#!/bin/bash

read -p "Please enter a number to represent epoch time:" STRING
echo "The UNIX time for $STRING is:" $($((date...

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Please enter a number to represent epoch time:" STRING
echo "The UNIX time for $STRING is (date -d@$"STRING" +%m-%d-%Y %T -utc)"

Output: Please enter a number to represent...

When I ran the code with the @ symbol - it returns

date: invalid date '@String'

should I rename STRING to something else? or am I missing a parameter with this code? I took a scripting class...

I am trying to create a script that will take epoch (input from command line) and convert it into a readable format in bash/shell

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