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Old 07-18-2011
How to get time duration between two human readable time stamp in Unix?
Here is two time I have:

Jul 12 16:02:01
Jul 13 01:02:01

and how can I do a simple match to get difference between two time which is 09:00:00

Thanks in advance.
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Old 07-18-2011
Assuming you have GNU date available:
Code:
$ s=$(( $(date -d "Jul 13 01:02:01" +%s) - $(date -d "Jul 12 16:02:01" +%s) ))
$ printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n" $((s/3600)) $((s%3600/60)) $((s%60))
09:00:00

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Old 07-18-2011
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Thanks a lot
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Old 07-19-2011
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