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Old 04-03-2006
Date Manupulation

HI all,
I am relatively new to Unix Shell Scripts ...

I want to know how u can calculate the differnece between the 2 dates.

As if in Oracle by using SYSDATE u get current date and time ..
How one can achieve it in Unix ?

Thanks..
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Old 04-03-2006
Do you want to get current date and time? Or do you want to get the number of days between two dates? Or both?

Anyways, to get current date and time, use the command 'date'. To do date arithmetic, use the datecalc script. Very fast, very useful.
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