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Commands tagged timestamp

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sed -r 's/(\[|])//g' | awk ' { $1=strftime("%D %T",$1); print }'
2012-02-03 13:07:37
User: Zulu
Functions: awk sed
Tags: sed awk timestamp
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Change time format in log, UNIX Timestamp to Human readable

It remove the square bracket and convert UNIX time to human readable time for all line of a stream (or file).

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touch -d $(zenity --calendar --date-format=%F) filename
2011-11-18 17:58:47
User: frans
Functions: touch
Tags: touch zenity timestamp interactive
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Change/Modify timestamp interactively
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touch -t [[CC]AA]MMJJhhmm[.ss]
2011-10-11 23:35:52
User: YouM
Functions: touch
Tags: touch file time timestamp
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Change file time stamp

Change file time stamp

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ping HOSTNAME | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done
2011-09-07 02:03:19
User: sammcj
Functions: echo ping read
Tags: ping timestamp
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ping with timestamp
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tail -f /var/log/squid/access.loc | ccze -CA
2011-07-15 14:58:53
User: longdrink
Functions: tail
Tags: perl log date time human timestamp squid human-readable
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read squid logs with human-readable timestamp

The same with colors

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tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log | perl -p -e 's/^([0-9]*)/"[".localtime($1)."]"/e'
2011-07-06 08:55:27
User: godzillante
Functions: perl tail
Tags: perl log date time human timestamp squid human-readable
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read squid logs with human-readable timestamp
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nawk 'BEGIN {print srand()}'
2011-01-12 16:17:59
User: EBAH
Tags: time utc timestamp
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Unix timestamp Solaris

For Solaris to obtain the same as:

date+%s like in linux

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