Re: Shell script to extract time
Re: Shell script to extract time
- Subject: Re: Shell script to extract time
- From: "Adam Bell" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:08:12 -0300
Except that that gives the wrong date and time on my machine.
Wouldn't it be easier to parse out what you wanted from:
do shell script "last reboot"
The first line of that on my machine reads:
reboot ~ Wed Apr 5 14:10
On 4/6/06, Mark J. Reed <email@hidden> wrote:
On 4/6/06 7:45 AM, "Mark Siple" <email@hidden> wrote:
> do shell script "/usr/sbin/sysctl
kern.boottime | awk '{ print $6 }' | sed s/:/./g > " & tPath
Why do you need the sed part?
do shell script "/usr/sbin/sysctl kern.boottime | awk '{ print $6 }' > " & tPath
Uhm, to convert the colons to periods? Like the OP asked after the above solution was proposed?
Personally, I recommend a more direct approach. Given the -n option, sysctl outputs only the value of the variable without the name, and in the case of timestamps, it outputs it in time_t format. You can feed that to the date command via -r and use the +format option to get it in any form you like:
do shell script "/bin/date -r `/usr/bin/sysctl -n kern.boottime` +'%H.%M.%S' "
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