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Commands tagged Date manipulation

Terminal - Commands tagged Date manipulation - 7 results

date -j -v1d -v-0m -v-1d +'%m %d %Y'

2010-03-04 17:47:51

User: drewk

Functions: date

Tags: Date manipulation date POSIX

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Calculate the the last day of a month +/- from current month

This produces a parseable output of the last day of the month in future or past. Change the '-v-0m' to be a month plus or minus from the current system time.

utime(){ perl -e "print localtime($1).\"\n\"";}

2009-11-06 12:58:10

User: MoHaG

Functions: perl

Tags: Date manipulation Linux perl solaris unix date function time zsh convert

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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

A shell function using perl to easily convert Unix-time to text.

Put in in your ~/.bashrc or equivalent.

Tested on Linux / Solaris Bourne, bash and zsh. using perl 5.6 and higher.

(Does not require GNU date like some other commands)

perl -e 'print scalar(gmtime(1234567890)), "\n"'

2009-08-25 15:00:52

User: andrew112358

Functions: perl

Tags: Date manipulation solaris date epoch

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convert unixtime to human-readable

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echo "0t${currentEpoch}=Y" | /usr/bin/adb

2009-08-25 12:17:01

User: verboEse

Functions: echo

Tags: Date manipulation solaris date epoch

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convert unixtime to human-readable

this works on Solaris, so not better than the "only-GNU"-tool :-(

I think, there is no one-liner for this, that will work on all *nix-es

date -d '1 day ago'; date -d '11 hour ago'; date -d '2 hour ago - 3 minute'; date -d '16 hour'

2009-06-01 10:41:56

User: LrdShaper

Functions: date

Tags: Date manipulation Linux find dates

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Get yesterday's date or a previous time

With this command you can get a previous or future date or time. Where can you use this? How about finding all files modified or created in the last 5 mins?

touch -t `echo $(date -d "5 minute ago" "+%G%m%d%H%M.%S")` me && find . -type f -newer me

List all directories created since last week?

touch -t `echo $(date -d "1 week ago" "+%G%m%d%H%M.%S")` me && find . -type d -cnewer me

I'm sure you can think of more ways to use it. Requires coreutils package.

ldapsearch -v -H ldap://<server> -x -D cn=<johndoe>,cn=<users>,dc=<ourdomain>,dc=<tld> -w<secret> -b ou=<lazystaff>,dc=<ourdomain>,dc=<tld> -s sub sAMAccountName=* '*' | perl -pne 's/(\d{11})\d{7}/"DATE-AD(".scalar(localtime($1-11644473600)).")"/e'

2009-04-22 00:57:34

User: flux

Functions: perl

Tags: Date manipulation perl ldap

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decoding Active Directory date format

When Ldapsearch queries an Active directory server, all the dates are shown using a timestamp of 18 digits. This perl regexp decodes them in a more human friendly notation. 11644473600 corresponds to some microsoft epoch.

date --date=yesterday

2009-03-20 10:56:32

User: KeePon

Functions: date

Tags: Date manipulation

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print date 24 hours ago

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