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# 8  
Old 10-15-2012
Use perl for date time calculations as the math would be incorrect when you run into the end of the month or year...
# 9  
Old 10-15-2012
Works fine for me. What system are you on? Do you have nawk or gawk?
# 10  
Old 10-15-2012
Hi Ygor,

I have awk and gawk.

Code:
uname -a
Linux 2.6.18-194.11.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 04:57:05 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
 whence awk
/usr/bin/awk

cat tmp.sh
#!/bin/ksh

STAT_FILE=myStats.txt
STAT_TMP_FILE=myStats.txt.tmp
 
awk ' NR == 1 {
              from = $2
              "date -u +%Y%m%d" | getline to
              $NF = to
      }
      NR == 2 {
              "expr $(date -d " to " +%s) - $(date -d " from " +%s)" | getline diff
              $NF = int(diff / 86400) + 1
      }
      {
              print $0
      }
      ' $STAT_TMP_FILE > $STAT_FILE

When i run
Code:
tmp.sh 
sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
sh: -c: line 0: ` +%s)'

thanks - jak

---------- Post updated at 10:32 PM ---------- Previous update was at 02:01 PM ----------

I tried this on command line and it works fine

Code:
expr $(date -d " 20121016 " +%s) - $(date -d " 20121014 " +%s)

but inside the script i am getting the error

Code:
sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
sh: -c: line 0: ` +%s) '

This line seems culprit
Code:
"expr $(date -d " to " +%s) - $(date -d " from " +%s) " | getline diff

Any other alternative to this particular line?
Thanks for your time and help - jak
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