convertion of seconds to date and time in linux shell script
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convertion of seconds to date and time in linux shell script
Hi,
I am looking for command or function to convert seconds to date.
In shell script i will get seconds into one varible, I need to convert seconds to date and append to file(Ex: filename.<date-time-format>)
I.e
ts=1280353895 -->This is date and time in seconds.This needs to convert
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.
Through date command with options i can get this format.
#date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S ; date +%s; date
20100813061446 --->YYYYMMDDHHMMSS format.(I am looking this format)
1281705286 ----> time in seconds(getting into variable.need to convert)
Fri Aug 13 06:14:46 PDT 2010---->date
#date --version date (coreutils) 5.2.1
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with following commands i am getting date: invalid date `@1280353895'
DATE=$(date -d @$ts +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
or
DATE=`date -d @$ts +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`
I am not sure why you are using @$ts?If i am not wrong $ts is enough.
But its working fine with following command DATE=`date -d "1970-01-01 $ts sec" +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`
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