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Change/Modify timestamp interactively
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touch -d $(zenity --calendar --date-format=%F) filename

frans · 2011-11-18 17:58:47 6
copy timestamps of files from one location to another - useful when file contents are already synced but timestamps are wrong.

Sometimes when copying files from one place to another, the timestamps get lost. Maybe you forgot to add a flag to preserve timestamps in your copy command. You're sure the files are exactly the same in both locations, but the timestamps of the files in the new home are wrong and you need them to match the source. Using this command, you will get a shell script (/tmp/retime.sh) than you can move to the new location and just execute - it will change the timestamps on all the files and directories to their previous values. Make sure you're in the right directory when you launch it, otherwise all the touch commands will create new zero-length files with those names. Since find's output includes "." it will also change the timestamp of the current directory. Ideally rsync would be the way to handle this - since it only sends changes by default, there would be relatively little network traffic resulting. But rsync has to read the entire file contents on both sides to be sure no bytes have changed, potentially causing a huge amount of local disk I/O on each side. This could be a problem if your files are large. My approach avoids all the comparison I/O. I've seen comments that rsync with the "--size-only" and "--times" options should do this also, but it didn't seem to do what I wanted in my test. With my approach you can review/edit the output commands before running them, so you can tell exactly what will happen. The "tee" command both displays the output on the screen for your review, AND saves it to the file /tmp/retime.sh. Credit: got this idea from Stone's answer at http://serverfault.com/questions/344731/rsync-copying-over-timestamps-only?rq=1, and combined it into one line. Show Sample Output
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```
touch -m -d "Mon Nov  5 12:30:33 2012" './file1'
touch -m -d "Mon Nov  5 12:30:42 2012" './file2'
. . .
```
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find . -printf "touch -m -d \"%t\" '%p'\n" | tee /tmp/retime.sh

dmmst19 · 2012-11-05 20:32:05 11
read squid logs with human-readable timestamp

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```
before:
1310045550.240 0 10.10.10.27 TCP_HIT/200 1344 GET http://somedomain.com/ (...)
after:
[Thu Jul  7 15:32:30 2011].240 0 10.10.10.27 TCP_HIT/200 1344 GET http://somedomain.com (...)
```
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tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log | perl -p -e 's/^([0-9]*)/"[".localtime($1)."]"/e'

godzillante · 2011-07-06 08:55:27 8

Set access and modification timestamps of a file using another one as reference

atime and mtime timestamps of $FILE2 is changed according to the ones of $FILE1. If $FILE2 doesn't exist is created. Show Sample Output

touch -r "$FILE1" "$FILE2"

kobayashison · 2009-10-21 13:53:59 6

ping with timestamp
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2

ping HOSTNAME | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done

sammcj · 2011-09-07 02:03:19 45
Copy modification timestamp from one file to another.
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1

touch -r "source_file" "destination_file"

lgarron · 2014-01-24 12:50:49 7
Rotate all jpeg images in current folder, rename them to EXIF datetime and set files timestamp to EXIF datetime
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jhead -autorot -ft -n"%Y_%m_%d-%H_%M_%S" *.[jJ][pP][gG]

Yim · 2014-05-28 05:15:06 7
Unix timestamp Solaris

For Solaris to obtain the same as: date+%s like in linux
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0

nawk 'BEGIN {print srand()}'

ebah80 · 2011-01-12 16:17:59 20
read squid logs with human-readable timestamp

The same with colors
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0

tail -f /var/log/squid/access.loc | ccze -CA

longdrink · 2011-07-15 14:58:53 6
Change file time stamp

Change file time stamp
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0

touch -t [[CC]AA]MMJJhhmm[.ss]

YouM · 2011-10-11 23:35:52 5
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). Show Sample Output
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```
Input :
[1325199600] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: HOST01;Loopback;OK;HARD;1;Loopback0:UP:1 UP: OK
[1325199600] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: HOST01;Uptime Routers SFR;OK;HARD;1;Information only: 114 days

Ouput :
12/30/11 00:00:00 CURRENT SERVICE STATE: HOST01;Loopback;OK;HARD;1;Loopback0:UP:1 UP: OK
12/30/11 00:00:00 CURRENT SERVICE STATE: HOST01;Uptime Routers SFR;OK;HARD;1;Information only: 114 days
```
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sed -r 's/(\[|])//g' | awk ' { $1=strftime("%D %T",$1); print }'

Zulu · 2012-02-03 13:07:37 5
Find out the installation time of a linux system (when installed in a ext2/3/4 file system)

Find out the earliest installation time of a linux system by getting the / filesystem creation time. This example is only valid the os is installed on an ext2/3/4 filesystem.
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tune2fs -l $(df -P / | awk 'NR==2 {print $1}') | sed -n 's/^.*created: *//p'

forcefsck · 2012-05-31 12:12:35 4
Copy timestamps to all lines in a log file

If you have a logfile where some lines start with timestamps like "2014-05-01 12:34:56,123" but other lines are missing the timestamp (like stack traces or object dumps), then use this script to copy the most recent timestamp to any lines that are missing it. This is useful for merging log files, since you can then safely sort by timestamp to merge the files. Show Sample Output
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```
$ cat input.txt
2014-05-01 12:34:56,123 line with ts
line without ts

$ perl -ne 'if (/^(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3} )/ ) { $t=$1; print $_ } else { print $t . $_ }' input.txt
2014-05-01 12:34:56,123 line with ts
2014-05-01 12:34:56,123 line without ts
```
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perl -ne 'if (/^(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3} )/ ) { $t=$1; print $_ } else { print $t . $_ }'

unixmonkey76059 · 2014-05-21 08:54:27 9
Fix timestamps for emails in the current directory

Requires GNU touch. If on OSX, install coreutils and s/touch/gtouch/.
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for f in `ls *.eml`; do touch -d "`grep Date: $f | head -n 1 | sed 's/.*, $.*$ +.*/\1/'`" $f; done

vermiculus · 2015-07-06 03:00:55 10
Returns the current timestamp
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date +%s

hollandaisvolant · 2016-02-13 19:04:50 12
backup file with tar

backup your files in tar archive + timestamp of backup Show Sample Output
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```
medamin@inismhost:~/Documents/Developement/conf/bind9$ tar -cvf bind9-config-`date +%s`.tar *
db.192
db.192~
db.host.go
db.host.go~
named.conf.local
named.conf.local~
named.conf.options
named.conf.options~
medamin@inismhost:~/Documents/Developement/conf/bind9$
```
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tar -cvf bind9-config-`date +%s`.tar *

Fuonum · 2014-10-29 05:15:15 9

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