Date is a command line utility for printing or setting the date and time.
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How can I fake sending -time when sending email with Mutt?
Suppose a student is two hours late in returning an assignment. Now the assignment needs to travel a long way in internet so there is a good excuse that it got lost in somewhere or got jammed (well ...
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Linux date/time - monthly “mongodump”
For MongoDB backups, I want to backup only the newest changes from the previous month instead of everything from the previous month. As part of the query I need to pass to "mongodump", I have to ...
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Executing a program according to the last modified date
I need to write a script which would execute some executables in a directory according to the last modified date. The oldest should run first. How do I do it?
This is what I have done so far
for f ...
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How to generate a year-quarter date from the command line?
I'm interested in outputting a representation of the current year-quarter, as well as the year-quarter for the previous month.
If today is 2012 January 1st, I'd like to get
2012q1
and
2011q4
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Convert any Date format in unix
How can I convert any user inputted date into yyyy/mm/dd?
For example user can input date in one of the following formats 20120121 , 2012-01-21, 01/21/2012, 01/21/2012 etc.
But I need to convert any ...
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How does coreutil's date manage to get such weird results?
I was playing around with date to try to convert expressions such as "2 hours" to a number of seconds like 7200. I thought I could perform this with invocations such as:
date -d "1970-01-01 00:00:00 ...
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How to display Discordian date?
I am a strong believer in Discordianism. Yet most mostly I am confronted with the time measurement of pesky heathens.
How do I know what date it really is?
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Command 'date +FORMAT' — What are %a, %A, %b, etc. called?
The date command outputs the current date and time like this: Fri Apr 12 15:04:03 UTC 2013.
To have the output date-time in a custom format we can use date +FORMAT, for example, like this: date ...
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How to scp/tar files that are in between specific days?
I need to copy db log files between two suse servers where I am interested in files ONLY in between 10.3.2013 - 13.3.2013
It is desired to compress the files before copying so I tar them and scp. ...
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Correct use of TZ, date, and hwclock?
I'm working on an Buildroot developed ARM/ulibc Linux distribution for a custom board. I'm trying to understand the relationship between
If I do this, as I've seen on a few examples online:
# date ...
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how to suppress bash octal number interpretation? (to be interpreted as decimal)
I have this:
date +"%H hours and %M minutes"
I use festival to say it up.. but it says like: "zero nine hours".. I want it to say "nine hours"!
but date always give me 09... so I wonder if bash ...
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Filter a list of strings using math
I have a directory with files listed like so:
abc201303130110.txt
abc201303140511.txt
abc201303150112.txt
As you can see, the filename contains a datetime stamp. I want to return all files with the ...
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Unix Date command not working for few servers
I am trying to execute date command in unix server for yesterday. The commands tried are :
date --date ="1 day ago"
date --date ="1 days ago"
date --date ="yesterday
date --date ="-1 day"
These ...
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How to edit files in-place while performing operation on the values matching the searched pattern?
Given a list files containing random text and many datetimes in ISO format in it (e.g "2012-07-02T10:47:24+02:00"), how can I find all these datetimes and add 2 hours to each one ?
Ideally a solution ...
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expr command used to work and stopped
I am on SunOS machine trying to get the date string of the past minute, yesterday I used this command I found on the internet
expr `date +%Y%m%d%k%M` - 1
which is worked just fine and I saw the ...
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I messed up my system clock in Arch Linux
I installed Arch a couple of days ago. Just realized the date/time were off by a day and one hour.
I changed it using timedatectl set-time. Then used hwclock --systohc to set the hardware clock. ...
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How do I use an If-Else query based on the day of the week?
Problem: I need to check if today is Thursday and perform different actions based on the result of this condition. I tried two different approaches:
Getting the Day Name:
DAYOFWEEK=$(date +"%a")
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How to check Today's Day and Search Files
Problem: I need to find out today's date and search a file which contain's today's date in the name. Also another file which contains Yesterday's date.
I was able to do so by something like:
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Select greatest numbered filename
Simple requirement but can't find anything online which can achieve it.
I have a list of dated files as below...
filename_20120101.dat
filename_20120102.dat
filename_20120103.dat
I ...
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Create sub-directories and organize files by date
I have some directories of files copied from my security camera that I would like to organize into sub-directories by file date. So for example;
-rwxrwxrwx 0 root root 4935241 Jul 19 2012 ...
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How can I avoid “Run fsck manually” messages while allowing experimenting with system time changes?
I'm working with a system where we want to allow users to play around with the date and time if they want, and where reboots may happen arbitrarily. This is fine, except for one thing: if there's a ...
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Changing the localization
I have SSH access to a CentOS 6.3 box.
Some results on that SSH and I think the whole OS is localized to portuguese.
When I type date, for example, I get
Sex Fev 15 02:35:48 WET 2013
instead of
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Displaying a specific date
I'm trying to display a specific date in Unix, using the date command, I can't figure out how to display a date other than today's date.
For example, if I was trying to display July 4, 2011 I use
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How to change time and date which is in CST? [closed]
I am new to linux. Can anyone help me in changing the time and date which is in CST.
I am using RHEL5 linux. I have only CLI. No UI.
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Good method to compare time?
I need to check for the current time and abort the script if it is not proper time of day I am supposed to run it. Also, if anyone else runs it, it should abort.
For example: I need my script to only ...
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Outputting last modification date to another file?
I'm trying to read the number of lines in a file, and the last modification date of that file (e.g. if it was last modified Jan 18, 2013, it should output 2013-01-18), then append the data to the ...
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Installation date of Ubuntu
How can I determine when Ubuntu was installed in my computer? There was a different question posted here, but none of them is helpful.
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Solaris: find the day of last Monday,Tuesday,…Sunday by means of shell script
I'm trying desperatly to find a bash or ksh routine that allows me to find for example the previous Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday,... preceding today's date. Additonal it has to work on plain vanilla ...
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Awesome: Incorrect timezone
Typically, I set the timezone of my computer's clock by changing the .bashrc file, appending, say, TZ='America/Los_Angeles'; export TZ such that whenever date is invoked the right time in the right ...
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Help renaming folder according to date
I have the folder "Backup yzT Jan-01-2013". I've made also a script for do a backup everyday.
The problem I'm facing is how to rename the folder day by day according to date? Get the new name is ...
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I want to add the above date to each line on a prstat log file
I have a prstat log, as you all know the date and time is recorded on the top of the log file, I would like to add that date and time to the begging of each line until it gets to a new date, then I ...
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How to change the language for date command?
I'm using vnstat together with conky. To show the monthly traffic I'm mixing vnstat and grep to find the month. The command to collect the data is
${execi 3600 vnstat -m -i wlan0 | grep "$(date ...
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Renaming a bunch of files with date modified timestamp at the end of the filename?
So, say, I have a directory with a bunch of files like g.txt, where g.txt was last modified on, say, June 20, 2012.
How would I batch-rename all of the files (like g.txt) with the last modified date ...
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Solaris + display file time stamp [year][month][day]
I have Solaris 10 machine
I need to verify time stamp of some file in my Solaris machine
And to get the following format
[year][month][day]
Example of working command on Linux
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Appending current date to filename
I'm trying to append the current date to the end of a file name, like what we see in logfiles:
TheFile.log.2012-02-11
I have been following this example and applied this to both a Unix and Linux ...
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Why are the timestamps on files so old on my newly installed system?
I installed the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 on a client system today. If it is of any concern, it's running on the bare metal. After the installation was completed, I did ls -ltr / and it showed a ...
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How do you specify a format for the input to date?
Given a date and time in a format that is not recognized by date, how can I get date to recognize the date and time?
For example:
$ date -d "09SEP2012:23:58:46"
date: invalid date ...
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Appending timestamp stamp along with log file lines
I have a log file and I need to append timestamps to each line as they get added. So I'm looking for script that appends timestamps to each entry in log lines and which could run as a cron job.
Could ...
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How to find difference between two timestamps up to milliseconds?
I am new to shell scripting. The heart of my script is to find the difference between two timestamps up to milliseconds. With me I have a file with content of timestamps only as
2012-09-13 ...
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How to show full day name with command of e.g. Jul 16 1991
I found out that date --date 'Jul 16 1991' has an complete output, but I only want the terminal to show the name of the day e.g. Monday. How do I do that?
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Convert formatted dates to seconds since the epoch
I have a file:
pablo tty8 Thu Nov 1 12:51:21 2012 still logged in
(unknown tty8 Thu Nov 1 12:50:57 2012 - Thu Nov 1 12:51:21 2012 (00:00)
pablo tty2 Thu Nov 1 12:50:39 2012 still logged in
pablo ...
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First and last day of a month
Given two numbers, month and year, how can I compute the first and the last day of that month ? My goal is to output these three lines:
month / year (month in textual form but that is trivial)
for ...
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locale definition with French republican calendar
I wonder if it is possible to create a locale definition that would make the C library format the dates according to the French republican calendar.
I expect then, for example, run `date' and get ...
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Equivalent of date --reference in Solaris
The GNU implementation of the date command has a nice feature to show the date of the last modification of a reference file, and using the +FORMAT parameter it is easy to get the date in any format, ...
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show the year while listing files in the current directory
I am working on a red hat server
I want to list the files in a way where the year when each was file created would appear in the Date
how is that possible ?
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List files created on Sundays
How do I list/find all the files created on Sundays or Mondays?
How do I use the date parameter to display them?
Something like :
ls -f date + %a
or
find -type f | date +%A
or
find -type f ...
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Find files which are created a certain time after or before a particular file was created
I need a shell script which finds files which are created 1 hour before or 1 hour after a particular file (test.txt) was created.
If I go with find -newer, that means I'd have to create a temporary ...
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linux + add 10 days to date and get new virtual date
I have Linux ( RH 5.3) machine
I need to add/calculate 10 days plus date so then I will get new date (expiration date))
for example
# date
Sun Sep 11 07:59:16 IST 2012
So I need to get
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Parsing the output of date with sed
I am trying to replace the whitespaces in the output of date with '_' with no success.
$date
Fri Sep 14 14:10:04 EDT 2012
$ date | sed 's/ /_/'
Fri_Sep 14 14:10:24 EDT 2012
As you can see, the ...
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How can I have `date` output the time from a different timezone?
I have a server running with the timezone set to UTC. It seemed like that was generally a good practice (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Anyhow, one of the servers I connect to, in order to scp ...
