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# 8  
Old 12-19-2005
date variable
vgersh99,
Is there anyway to modify your code to pass date as variable(120905)?
the format will be like mmddyy.
What does /^time/ mean here?


currentEpoch=$(/usr/bin/truss /usr/bin/date 2>&1 | /usr/bin/awk '/^time/ {print $NF}')
# 9  
Old 12-19-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by cin2000
vgersh99,
Is there anyway to modify your code to pass date as variable(120905)?
the format will be like mmddyy.
This is not 'epoch time' format - totally different question!

Quote:
Originally Posted by cin2000
What does /^time/ mean here?


currentEpoch=$(/usr/bin/truss /usr/bin/date 2>&1 | /usr/bin/awk '/^time/ {print $NF}')
This means 'get the line starting with the string 'time'
# 10  
Old 12-19-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
cin2000, "uname -a" will tell you the os.

vger99, I like that procedure to to get the internal time. I'll never use it, mind you. But I like it anyway. Smilie Another way which requires root (or at least non-standard) permission: "echo time/D | adb -k" I used to like these adb tricks but since 64 bit kernels started to arrive they are not as much fun. On a 64 bit kernel, you may need: "echo time+4/D | adb -k"

Between the 32/64 bit confusion and the user permission problems, I have started using perl for this stuff: perl -e 'print time, "\n"'.
Agreed - perl is somewhat more 'generic', but in some cases [at least for me] I don't have the luxury on relying on 'perl' being installed on the 'target' system.
# 11  
Old 12-19-2005
how to get epoch time from normal readible format?
Hi,
Thanks a lot for the help on epoch convertion.
I thought I know how to convert regular date format to epoch time...
But I don't...
I need to convert something like 093005(mmddyy) format to epoch time to put back into the log file, not just current system date time.

Is there way to do it?

Your help is greatly appreciated!!
# 12  
Old 12-19-2005
epoch convertion
I found the solution by using perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# date from time_t seconds since the start of epoch then.pl
use Time::Local;
$epoch = timelocal( 0,0,0,19,11,2005 );
print("$epoch\n");
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