Re: [OT] Shell scripting
Re: [OT] Shell scripting
- Subject: Re: [OT] Shell scripting
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 00:25:12 -0800
At 10:48p -0800 12/26/2003, Paul Berkowitz didst inscribe upon an
electronic papyrus:
On 12/26/03 8:44 PM, "Walter Ian Kaye" <email@hidden> wrote:
> At 03:22p -1000 12/26/2003, Reinhold Penner didst inscribe upon an
> electronic papyrus:
>
>> I was wondering if there is a shell way to apply the formatting to
>> an arbitrary date string. For example get the creation/modification
>> date of a file and format that as easily as below.
>
> Not with `date`, but maybe some other program that calls strftime()
> would allow it. The hard part is discovering what program that might
> be.
You can do it with 'date' using the -r switch.
Oh yeah... I misread the man page. ::blink,blink::
-boo
who just decided that 'tsubu an' is tastier than 'koshi an'
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