bash script to convert date seconds back to date format..
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Aug 16 08:02:34 UTC 2007
Robert F. Chapman wrote:
> Depending on the version of date you have installed, you can use the
> following syntax.
>
>> date --date=@1187249220
>
> Thu Aug 16 00:27:00 PDT 2007
>
> Im not sure when the feature was added, but I remember seeing it used
> this way quite some time ago.
Along with that....
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 00:21 -0700, bruce wrote:
>> fair enough....
>>
>> #/bin/bash
>>
>> #gets the epoch secs
>> time=$(date -%s)
Should read:
time=$(date +%s)
>> #convert back
>> tstart=$(date -d $start +%H:%M:%S:)"
Can be....
tstart=$(date --date=@$time +%H:%M:%S:)
The script doesn't define "$start" to begin with. (What that a pun?)
>> the above was from a website, although i've yet to get it to work...
I could understand that. Looks like the person posting never did read the
man page for "date".
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