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Simple countdown from a given date

Terminal - Simple countdown from a given date
watch --no-title -d -n 1 'echo `date -d "next Thursday" +%s` "-" `date +%s` | bc -l'
2009-03-29 06:53:09
User: jnash
Functions: bc watch
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Simple countdown from a given date

Might be more useful if you were able to print it in Days HH:MM:SS format as:

perl -e '@p=gmtime(234234);printf("%d Days %02d:%02d:%02ds\n",@p[7,2,1,0]);'

But I'm not exactly sure how to replace the 234234 with the output of the countdown time. (Having some problems with nested quoting/command substitution). Help would be appreciated :)

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The solution you are looking for is to not use backticks. If you use the bash shell substituton command, $()

echo $(echo hello $(echo world, $(echo its $(echo been $(echo fun)))))

you should be ok.

Comment by clockworkavian 216 weeks and 3 days ago

Thanks for letting me know!

I tried to force the two together and burnt my fingers in the process :D.

Comment by jnash 216 weeks and 3 days ago

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1778/not-so-simple-countdown-from-a-given-date

Comment by penpen 216 weeks and 3 days ago

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/1387/backticks-are-evil

Comment by atoponce 216 weeks and 2 days ago

Your point of view

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