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Old 05-12-2010
Computer getting the current time in Epoch format
Hi everybody,

I want to get the current time in epoch format (in UNIX or Korn Shell) and store it in a variable called
currentTime. Any response will be highly appreciatedSmilie

Thanks in advance,
omoyneSmilie
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Old 05-12-2010
Check this post...

get unix timestamp
# 3  
Old 05-12-2010
thanks but I was looking for something more straightforward Smilie
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Old 05-12-2010
I don't get your confusion...you'd asked basically the same question the other day (ie, https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...#post302420128) and we gave you means to get both current time epoch value, and then the file stats off of a given file/directory...

???
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Old 05-12-2010
that was timestamp of a FILE!....this question is regard to obtaining the current time in epoch format. There are no files here!!
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Old 05-12-2010
Tools What about this?
Code:
touch file3
echo `stat -c%Y file3`
1273684993

the echo is above because I often actually use
Code:
time_var=$(echo `stat -c%Y file3`)
echo $time_var

Last edited by joeyg; 05-12-2010 at 02:35 PM.. Reason: reason for echo
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Old 05-12-2010
There are no date-related commands in ksh.
It would have to be an external utility or a custom program.

What Operating System are you running?



Code:
If you have Perl.

currentTime=$(perl -e 'print time;')

Which is also in the link posted in current thread as:

currentTime=$(perl -e "print time();")

 
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