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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to do a simple math calc during a shell script as a means of logging how long a particular task takes.
For example...
STARTTIME=whenever this script starts
./path/to/command.sh >>logfile.log
TOTALTIME=<time at this stage of the script after above command... (7 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi ,
Here is the smaller version of the problem.
Working individually as command
************************>echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
************************>TO_DAY=`date`
************************>echo $TO_DAY
Tue Jul 16 02:28:31 EDT 2013
************************>
Not working when... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Anupam_Halder
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3. Shell Programming and Scripting
There is a closed Thread: <url>Here will be the url to the original post once I have 5 posts in this forum...</url>
But a small bug had found his way into this very cool and simple code.
#!/bin/bash date2stamp () { date --utc --date "$1" +%s } stamp2date (){ date --utc --date... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: frood
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello all!
This is my first post and I'm very new to programming. I would like help creating a simple perl or bash script that I will be using in my work as a junior bioinformatician.
Essentially, I would like to take a tab-delimted or .csv text with 3 columns and write them to a "3D" matrix:
... (16 Replies)
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5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi Gurus,
Please help in this shell script.
x=000
y=`expr $x + 1`
echo $y
which gives me the value as 1
How can i get the value as 001 in this shell script. As i am new to scripting stuck up here.
Requesting here help here (2 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
i have used the search already before someone shouts at me and i have seen the 'datecalc' program but this is not working correctly for me in the shell and environment i am using.
I am using solaris 10 and bourne shell.
I have two dates '07-04-2009' and '05-05-2009'. I just need to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: muay_tb
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7. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi guys,
I have some embedded perl within my shell script to get me the modification time/date of a file which returns me the following string:
Fri May 1 09:52:58 2009
I have managed to get the bits i need such as 1-May-2009, but what i would prefer is 010509 instead...
Here is my... (4 Replies)
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8. Shell Programming and Scripting
i have a script that grep for today date
a=`date +"%F"`--------greps current/today date
wat if suppose i want to grep a date for yesterday...
how to do that using the above format: i,e 2008-01-20 (4 Replies)
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9. HP-UX
Hi all!
I'm working on a HPUX system, and I was wondering if there is a simple way to convert a date from seconds (since 1970) to a normal date.
Thanks (2 Replies)
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10. Tips and Tutorials
The GNU date command in full of goodies but not when it comes to calculate a date or time difference. Here is what I came up with after looking to more than one solution.
Code should be self explaining.
#!/bin/bash
date2stamp () {
date --utc --date "$1" +%s
}
stamp2date (){
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Discussion started by: ripat
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