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Commands tagged date

Terminal - Commands tagged date - 40 results

truss date 2>&1 | awk '/^time/{print $3}'

2010-07-29 07:26:11

User: winky

Functions: awk date

Tags: solaris date epoch

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solaris: get seconds since epoch

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echo "($(date +%s)-$(date +%s -d "march 1"))/86400"|bc

2010-07-22 19:44:50

User: nickwe

Functions: echo

Tags: echo bc date

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find out how many days since given date

Exactly the same number of characters, exactly the same results, but with bc

TZ=PST8PDT+72 date '+%Y_%m_%d'

2010-07-02 00:29:27

User: StefanLasiewski

Functions: date

Tags: date nongnu

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Print a date from 3 days ago

This command prints the Date (Not time) from 3 days ago (72 hours ago).

This works on systems without GNU date (MacOSX , Solaris, FreeBSD).

sudo find . -maxdepth 1 -cnewer olderFilesNameToMove -and ! -cnewer newerFileNameToMove -exec mv -v {} /newDirectory/ \;

2010-06-30 20:40:30

User: javamaniac

Functions: find mv sudo

Tags: file date time move folder range

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Move all files between to date

In a folder with many files and folders, you want to move all files where the date is >= the file olderFilesNameToMove and

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watch -tn1 'date -u +%T -d @$(expr $(date -d HH:MM +%s) - $(date +%s)) | toilet -f bigmono12'

2010-06-26 11:56:11

User: prayer

Functions: date expr watch

Tags: date time

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big countdown clock with hours, minutes and seconds

Change HH:MM with your target time.

This is for a Debian/Ubuntu GNU system. You need bash (package bash), date (package coreutils) and toilet (package toilet). Install with:

# apt-get install bash coreutils toilet toilet-fonts

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touch file-$(date +%Y%m%d)

2010-05-24 07:43:45

User: unixmonkey6894

Functions: date touch

Tags: file date

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creeate file named after actual date

Create a file with actual date as filename

grep -i "$(date +%b\ %d\ %H)" syslog

2010-05-23 16:18:15

User: unixmonkey6894

Functions: grep

Tags: log date

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Grep syslog today last hour

Uses date to grep de logfile for today and uses it to get the last hour logs. Can be used to get last minute logs or today's logs.

utime(){ python -c "import time; print(time.strftime('%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y', time.localtime($1)))"; }

2010-05-14 08:00:44

User: 4Aiur

Functions: python

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

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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

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utime(){ awk -v d=$1 'BEGIN{print strftime("%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y", d)}'; }

2010-05-14 08:00:04

User: 4Aiur

Functions: awk

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

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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

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utime(){ date -d "1970-01-01 GMT $1 seconds"; }

2010-05-14 07:49:49

User: 4Aiur

Functions: date

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

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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

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utime { date -d @$1; }

2010-05-12 12:21:15

User: deltaray

Functions: date

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

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Easily decode unix-time (funtion)

More recent versions of the date command finally have the ability to decode the unix epoch time into a human readable date. This function makes it simple to utilize this feature quickly.

alias dateh='date --help|sed "/^ *%a/,/^ *%Z/!d;y/_/!/;s/^ *%$[:a-z]\+$ \+/\1_/gI;s/%/#/g;s/^$[a-y]\|[z:]\+$_/%%\1_%\1_/I"|while read L;do date "+${L}"|sed y/!#/%%/;done|column -ts_'

This is sample output - yours may be different.


(1:2751)$ dateh
%a         Sat                              locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)
%A         Saturday                         locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)
%b         Apr                              locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)
%B         April                            locale's full month name (e.g., January)
%c         Sat 24 Apr 2010 05:29:05 AM EDT  locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005)
%C         20                               century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)
%d         24                               day of month (e.g, 01)
%D         04/24/10                         date; same as %m/%d/%y
%e         24                               day of month, space padded; same as %%d
%F         2010-04-24                       full date; same as %Y-%m-%d
%g         10                               last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)
%G         2010                             year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V
%h         Apr                              same as %b
%H         05                               hour (00..23)
%I         05                               hour (01..12)
%j         114                              day of year (001..366)
%k          5                               hour ( 0..23)
%l          5                               hour ( 1..12)
%m         04                               month (01..12)
%M         29                               minute (00..59)
%n
a newline
%N         037105000                        nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)
%p         AM                               locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known
%P         am                               like %p, but lower case
%r         05:29:06 AM                      locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)
%R         05:29                            24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M
%s         1272101346                       seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
%S         06                               second (00..60)
%t                                                a tab
%T         05:29:06                         time; same as %H:%M:%S
%u         6                                day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday
%U         16                               week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%V         16                               ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)
%w         6                                day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday
%W         16                               week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%x         04/24/2010                       locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)
%X         05:29:06 AM                      locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)
%y         10                               last two digits of year (00..99)
%Y         2010                             year
%z         -0400                            +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)
%:z        -04:00                           +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)
%::z       -04:00:00                        +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)
%:::z      -04                              numeric time zone with : to necessary precision (e.g., -04, +05:30)
%Z         EDT                              alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

2010-04-21 01:22:18

User: AskApache

Functions: alias column date read sed

Tags: bash sed alias column read while date loop for substitution askapache sh POSIX locale parameter

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View all date formats, Quick Reference Help Alias

If you have used bash for any scripting, you've used the date command alot. It's perfect for using as a way to create filename's dynamically within aliases,functions, and commands like below.. This is actually an update to my first alias, since a few commenters (below) had good observations on what was wrong with my first command.

# creating a date-based ssh-key for askapache.github.com

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/`date +git-$USER@$HOSTNAME-%m-%d-%g` -C 'webmaster@askapache.com' # /home/gpl/.ssh/git-gplnet@askapache.github.com-04-22-10

# create a tar+gzip backup of the current directory

tar -czf $(date +$HOME/.backups/%m-%d-%g-%R-`sed -u 's/\//#/g' <<< $PWD`.tgz) . # tar -czf /home/gpl/.backups/04-22-10-01:13-#home#gpl#.rr#src.tgz .

I personally find myself having to reference

date --help

quite a bit as a result. So this nice alias saves me a lot of time. This is one bdash mofo. Works in sh and bash (posix), but will likely need to be changed for other shells due to the parameter substitution going on.. Just extend the sed command, I prefer sed to pretty much everything anyways.. but it's always preferable to put in the extra effort to go for as much builtin use as you can. Otherwise it's not a top one-liner, it's a lazyboy recliner.

Here's the old version:

alias dateh='date --help|sed "/^ *%%/,/^ *%Z/!d;s/ \+/ /g"|while read l;do date "+ %${l/% */}_${l/% */}_${l#* }";done|column -s_ -t'

This trick from my [ http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html bash_profile ]

date +%A | cut -c $(( $(date +%A | wc -c) - 1 ))

2010-04-07 00:23:15

User: DaveQB

Functions: cut date wc

Tags: bash echo cut date wc

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Bash function to see what the day ends in

A command to find out what the day ends in. Can be edited slightly to find out what "any" output ends in.

NB: I haven't tested with weird and wonderful output.

function ends_in_y() { case $(date +%A) in *y ) true ;; * ) false ;; esac } ; ends_in_y && echo ok

2010-04-06 22:18:52

User: unixmonkey9199

Functions: date echo false true

Tags: bash sed echo date function

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Bash function to see if the day ends in

The shell has perfectly adequate pattern matching for simple expressions.

function ends_in_y() { if [ `date +%A | sed -e 's/$^.*$$.$$/\2/'` == "y" ]; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi }

2010-04-06 20:14:34

User: allrightname

Functions: echo sed

Tags: bash sed echo date function

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Bash function to see if the day ends in "y"

For those days when you need to know if something is happening because the day ends in "y".

sed -i 's/20[0-1][0-9]\{7\}/'`date +%Y%m%d%I`'/g' *.db

2010-03-24 07:28:58

User: alf

Functions: sed

Tags: Linux sed serial date dns cpanel

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Update zone file Serial numbers

Will edit *.db files in the same directory with todays date. Useful for doing a mass update to domains on a nameserver, adding spf records, etc.

Looks for a string starting with 200 or 201 followed by 7 numbers, and replaces with todays date. This won't overwrite Ip's but i would still do some double checking after running this.

Make sure your server's date is correct, otherwise insert your own serial number.

rndc reload

should usually follow this command.

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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.

date -s "`curl -sI www.example.com | sed -n 's/^Date: //p'`"

2010-01-08 21:05:41

User: putnamhill

Functions: date

Tags: curl date

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Poor man's ntpdate

If you don't have netcat, you can use curl.

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date -s "$(echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\n" | nc www.example.com 80 | sed -ne 's/^Date: $.*$$/\1/p')"

2010-01-08 20:05:00

User: tomhol

Functions: date

Tags: date

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Poor man's ntpdate

Good when firewalled and only in need of a reasonable accurate time.

Use a fast responding web server.

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xvkbd -xsendevent -text $(date +%Y%m%d)

2009-12-23 12:01:07

User: sputnick

Functions: date

Tags: X X11 xvkbd date clipboard

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Typing the current date ( or any string ) via a shortcut as if the keys had been actually typed with the hardware keyboard in any application.

That works in all softs, CLI or GUI... I don't want to waste time to all the time typing the same stuff . So, I have that command in my window manager shortcuts ( meta+l ). All the window managers have editable shortcuts AFAIK. If not, or you don't want to use it that way, you can easily use the xbindkeys soft.

I you're using kde4, you can run :

systemsettings

then open "inputs actions" and create a new shortcut.

For Gnome take a look there : http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-keyboard-shortcuts-in-gnome/

A more advanced one, with strings and newlines :

xvkbd -xsendevent -text "---8<-----\nToday date is: $(date +%Y%m%d)\n---8<-----"

For complicated or long paste, you can feed xvkbd with a file :

xvkbd -xsendevent -file <file>

You can simulate ^C ( control+c ) too or others combinations of keys :

xvkbd -text "\C\Ac"

There's no man page nor help ( On my Archlinux distro ), but you can see online doc there : http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/xvkbd/

curl -o id.gif `date +http://d.yimg.com/a/p/uc/%Y%m%d/largeimagecrwiz%y%m%d.gif`

2009-12-04 20:16:32

User: putnamhill

Tags: curl date

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get daily wizard of id comic

Requires the date command. This also works with some other comics. Here's a bash script that displays daily Garfield, Id, and Andy Capp:

http://putnamhill.net/cgi-bin/yahoo-comics.sh?ga,crwiz,crcap

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ruby -rdate -e 'p DateTime.now.cweek'

2009-12-02 02:33:51

User: Tekhne

Tags: date week ruby

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ruby one-liner to get the current week number

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date +%V

2009-12-01 21:40:56

User: putnamhill

Functions: date

Tags: date week

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perl one-liner to get the current week number

Not perl but shorter.

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ruby -e 'require "date"; puts DateTime.now.cweek'

2009-12-01 20:59:18

User: imsaar

Tags: date week ruby

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ruby one-liner to get the current week number

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perl -e 'use Date::Calc qw(Today Week_Number); $weekn = Week_Number(Today); print "$weekn\n"'

2009-12-01 20:56:13

User: imsaar

Functions: perl

Tags: perl date week

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perl one-liner to get the current week number

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