Comments on: Unix Scripting: Time and Date

By: Converting date and time to Unix epoch in Perl | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX

Converting date and time to Unix epoch in Perl | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:08:32 +0000

[...] subroutines needed simple seconds-based arithmetics with time. As you probably remember from my date and time in Unix scripts article, the easiest way to approach this task is to deal with the raw representation of date and [...]

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:19:37 +0000

Hi Abbadi, glad you liked the article! I post new links more or less every Tuesday, so if I come across such a site I'll definitely share it with everyone. I plan to cover a lot of basics myself, so feel free to submit your questions/topics.

By: Abbadi

Abbadi — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:06:52 +0000

Please can you tell me about any site that explains unix scripts for fresh programmer in unix

By: Abbadi

Abbadi — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:04:37 +0000

Thanks for all ……

BR,

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:14:21 +0000

Hi Dave,

time command is a great tool when you need to measure the time for running a command or a whole script, your example is perfect.

But what I'm explaining in this post is timing parts of the script, i.e. a certain execution path within the same script – and last time I checked you couldn't use time command as such a stopwatch.

Thanks for stopping by! I'll update the post to make it include your example and explain my point a bit better.

By: DaveQB

DaveQB — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:49:59 +0000

Why not just use the 'time' command ?

time dd if=/dev/zero of=test.img bs=512 count 30000

By: date - getting and setting current time and date in Unix | Unix Commands

date - getting and setting current time and date in Unix | Unix Commands — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:31:39 +0000

[...] Hi! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!date is a basic Unix command for getting or setting the current time and date on your system. Because it's the easiest way to get current time, this command is extensively used in Unix scripting. [...]

By: Confirm the Day of the Week Based on a Timestamp | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:56:17 +0000

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By: Easy date calculations in Unix scripts with GNU date | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:53:14 +0000

[...] of Unix. You can follow me on Twitter, too! Thanks for visiting!When I was writing a post about using date command to confirm date and time in your Unix scripts, I made a note in my future posts list to cover the date calculations – finding out the date of [...]

By: Parsing text files line by line in Unix script | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX

Parsing text files line by line in Unix script | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:56:58 +0000

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