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StopWatch, toilet version, amazing format inside terminal

already described on the other two versions, this one uses ascii characters on game style to display elapsed time. Show Sample Output
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```
  _ \    _ \     ___ \  ___ /      |  |  ___|
 |   |  |   | _)    ) |   _ \  _)  |  |  __ \
 |   |  |   |      __/     ) |    ___ __|  ) |
\___/  \___/  _) _____| ____/  _)    _| ____/
```
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export I=$(date +%s); watch -t -n 1 'T=$(date +%s);E=$(($T-$I));hours=$((E / 3600)) ; seconds=$((E % 3600)) ; minutes=$((seconds / 60)) ; seconds=$((seconds % 60)) ; echo $(printf "%02d:%02d:%02d" $hours $minutes $seconds) | toilet -f shadow'

m33600 · 2009-10-23 07:56:30 10
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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date -s "$(echo -e "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\n" | nc www.example.com 80 | sed -ne 's/^Date: $.*$$/\1/p')"

tomhol · 2010-01-08 20:05:00 9
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. Show Sample Output
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```
y
```
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date +%A | cut -c $(( $(date +%A | wc -c) - 1 ))

DaveQB · 2010-04-07 00:23:15 5
Create a log file of Nvidia graphics card temperatures using nvidia-smi
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logfile=/var/log/gputemp.log; timestamp=$( date +%T );temps=$(nvidia-smi -lsa | grep Temperature | awk -F: ' { print $2 } '| cut -c2-4 | tr "\n" " ");echo "${timestamp} ${temps}" >> ${logfile}

purehate · 2010-05-28 10:14:47 6
solaris: get seconds since epoch
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truss date 2>&1 | awk '/^time/{print $3}'

winky · 2010-07-29 07:26:11 5
backup mysql database

Create a cronjob that runs weekly to backup your database to a file.
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0 0 * * 0 /usr/bin/mysqldump -uroot -p'<password>' data_base_name > /home/bob/XYZ_DB_BACKUP/$(date +\%Y-\%m-\%d_\%Hh\%M).sql

dtolj · 2010-09-02 20:07:07 4
Timezone conversions (eg: what time was @tz_dest when it was $tm @tz_orig)
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TZ="$tz_dest" date -d "$(TZ="$tz_orig" date -d "$tm")"

warlockcc · 2010-10-01 17:55:04 4
Binary clock

Lightweight alternative with case Show Sample Output
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```
...*
...*
.*.*
.**.
```
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for a in $(date +"%H%M"|cut -b1,2,3,4 --output-delimiter=" ");do case "$a" in 0)echo "....";;1)echo "...*";;2)echo "..*.";;3)echo "..**";;4)echo ".*..";;5)echo ".*.*";;6)echo ".**.";;7)echo ".***";;8)echo "*...";;9)echo "*..*";;esac;done

unefunge · 2010-11-26 10:58:22 4
Backup a file with a date-time stamp

"infix" version in bash (4.x+) Remove -v to make it silent. BTW: The OP forgot to use "cat" and "nmap" ;-) I had a good laugh though. Show Sample Output
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```
$ buf a.txt
`a.txt' -> `a-20101215_104638.txt'
$ buf a.txt.gz
`a.txt.gz' -> `a-20101215_104647.txt.gz'
```
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buf() { f=${1%%.*};e=${1/$f/};cp -v $1 $f-$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")$e;}

unefunge · 2010-12-15 09:50:04 3
Backup a file with a date-time stamp

even shorter (infix) version. Show Sample Output
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```
$ buf() { cp -v $1 ${1/${1%%.*}/$f-$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")};}
$ buf a.txt
`a.txt' -> `a-20101215_131256.txt'
$ buf a.txt.gz
`a.txt.gz' -> `a-20101215_131305.txt.gz'
```
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buf() { cp -v $1 ${1/${1%%.*}/$f-$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")};}

unefunge · 2010-12-15 12:16:03 3
What happened on this day in history?
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firefox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$(date +'%b_%d')

dbh · 2011-05-08 03:36:11 3
What happened on this day in history?

Improved version of command #8425. This way, the default browser is used, as opposed to Firefox.
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www-browser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$(date +'%b_%d')

benjabean1 · 2011-05-09 02:42:32 3
Synchronize date and time with a server over ssh

Neat idea! This variation works on FreeBSD.
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date `ssh user@server date "+%y%m%d%H%M.%S"`

wu · 2011-08-30 22:32:14 3
solaris: get current date + 72 hours
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TZ=$TZ-72 date +%d.%m.%Y

winky · 2011-09-07 14:03:09 3
Hunt for the newest file.
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fn=$(find . -type f -printf "%T@\t%p\n"|sort -n|tail -1|cut -f2); echo $(date -r "$fn") "$fn"

tzot · 2011-09-13 14:26:20 3
anti-spam
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date -u +%W$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'

martinmartiini · 2011-09-25 14:41:49 3
Get the time and date of the last server reboot
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date -d "$(uptime | awk '{gsub(/,/,"",$3);gsub(/:/," hours ",$3); print "- " $3 " minutes"}')"

unixmonkey3280 · 2011-10-20 06:46:31 6
Knowing when a machine is turned on
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date -d @$(echo $(($(date +%s)-$(cat /proc/uptime|cut -d. -f1))))

RuizTapiador · 2011-11-04 12:58:27 4
Epoch time conversion

0x Show Sample Output
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```
Wed Feb 1 12:41:50 JST 2012
```
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echo $(date -d @$((0x4f28b47e)))

h_nose · 2012-02-07 11:14:08 15
command to find when the last commit has happened from the server

command to find out the unused SVN repositories from the server via svnlook. This lists the when the last commit (HEAD revision) has happened in the repository. Show Sample Output
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```
$ svnlook date /repos/testrepo/
2012-03-30 20:31:43 +0530 (Fri, 30 Mar 2012)
```
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svnlook date /path/to/repo

ijeyanthan · 2012-04-03 16:29:00 6
Get the date for the last Saturday of a given month

Choosing your year and month. You only need the gnu date command and bash. desiredDay of the week is (1..7); 1 is Monday. If you want desiredDay of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday desiredDay=6; year=2012; month=5; n=0; while [ $(date -d "$year-$((month+1))-1 - $n day" "+%w") -ne $desiredDay ]; do n=$((n+1)); done; date -d "$year-$((month+1))-1 - $n day" "+%x" Show Sample Output
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```
05/26/2012
```
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desiredDay=6; year=2012; month=5; n=0; while [ $(date -d "$year-$((month+1))-1 - $n day" "+%u") -ne $desiredDay ]; do n=$((n+1)); done; date -d "$year-$((month+1))-1 - $n day" "+%x"

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-17 12:02:30 3
Dump TCP traffic to a host into a text and pcap file
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ngrep host 192.168.1.6 -O $(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).pcap > $(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).txt

batandwa · 2012-10-03 13:09:19 5
Get the UTC offset

Format of the response: [-]HH:mm Show Sample Output
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```
$ date +%:z
-03:00
```
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date +%:z

harpon · 2012-10-15 18:13:37 4
quick and easy way of validating a date format of yyyy-mm-dd and returning a boolean

On CentOS at least, date returns a boolean for the common date string formats, including YYYY-MM-DD. In the sample output, you can see various invalid dates returning 0 whereas a simple regex check would return 1 for the invalid dates. -d, --date=STRING display time described by STRING, not `now' The version of date on OS X does not appear to have this same option. Show Sample Output
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```
# if date -d 2006-10-10 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi
1

# if date -d 2006-40-10 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi
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# if date -d 2006-13-10 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi
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# if date -d 2006-11-31 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi
0
```
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if date -d 2006-10-10 >> /dev/null 2>&1; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi

SteveGoossens · 2013-01-10 10:35:15 7
backup your history

this one works on user crontab
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gzip -c ~/.bash_history > ~/.backup/history-save-$(date +\%d-\%m-\%y-\%T).gz

tictacbum · 2013-01-11 17:31:07 4
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