New answers tagged date
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How to change the modification date (The Metadata) of multiple files?
Update: If I am wrong with this answer please let me now.
I'm not sure if file system's modification date metadata is equivalent to exitf modification date metadata. I tested with exiftool and the ...
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Why does `date` ignore TZ environment variable?
The correct, standard and portable way to define via $TZ a time zone that is called UTC and is on (with 0 offset to) Universal Time all year round is with:
TZ=UTC0
That is self-contained and give the ...
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Copy a file and append a timestamp
If the original file name were test1.txt, this copy statement copies it and concatenates a date-time stamp onto the original file-name in the current directory:
cp test1.txt{,.$(date +%Y%m%d%H%m%s)}
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Get date of next Saturday from a given date
Maybe this is more straight forward than some of the other answers:
startdate=30-AUG-2015
weekday=saturday
date -d "$startdate + $(( (`date +%u -d $weekday` - `date +%u -d $startdate` + 7 ) % 7 ))...
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Script - Compare filename date with current date
The script I'm looking for has to print only the newest of all older
than today files.
I would suggest that you simply build a list of the filenames that exist, remove names matching the current date,...
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Script - Compare filename date with current date
That is what loops are for:
#!/bin/bash
for FILE in /some/directory/File156tr.*.*.txt
do
FROM_FILE=$(echo $FILE | grep -Eo '[[:digit:]]{8}')
NOW=$(date +"%Y%m%d")
DIFFERENCE=$(($NOW -...
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Precision of the date command and arithmetic
As others have said, most decimal representations of floating point numbers cannot be represented exactly in binary formats which are the ones computers use for computations.
All you see with printf %....
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Precision of the date command and arithmetic
Yes, some imprecision is to be expected using floats, that is an unavoidable result of using a limited set of bits, or bytes to express a real number. Or also called a number with several fractional ...
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Precision of the date command and arithmetic
There is an additional source of error. date returns %s and %N from different hardware clocks, and both are integers. The nanosecond value depends on whether high-resolution timers are available: even ...
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Precision of the date command and arithmetic
Binary floating point math is like this. In most programming languages, it is based on the IEEE 754 standard. The crux of the problem is that numbers are represented in this format as a whole number ...
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Read and convert date from file
$ let diff=($(date +%s -d 'today')-$(date +%s -f VM1_EOMAP_TIME.log))/60
$ echo "$diff"
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Read and convert date from file
Your problem is quoting.
And that you should use date -u to compensate for timezone.
$ echo "07 Sep 2022 16:30" > infile
$ var="$(<infile)"
$ cat infile; echo "$var"...
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Read and convert date from file
If your bash is recent, the current time in epoch seconds is builtin: $EPOCHSECONDS
Otherwise, bash's printf can get it with the %(fmt)T directive and magic value "-1":
printf -v ...
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Installation date of Ubuntu
When dumpe2fs and findmnt are not installed (on Synology DSM v6 for example) type :
$ sudo tune2fs -l $(LANG=C df / --output=source | grep -v Filesystem) | grep created:
Filesystem created: Sat ...
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Get date of Monday two weeks ago from particular date using GNU date
I tried to take a "reusable tool" approach.
My monday script:
#!/bin/bash
date=${1:-now}
shift
dow=`date +%u -d "$date"`
dow0=$[ $dow - 1 ]
date -d "$date -$dow0 days" &...
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