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ISO 8601 intervals in date arithmetic with date command
I can make some date arithmetic with date command like
$ date -u -d '3 days 2024-12-01T00:00:00Z' +%FT%H:%M:%SZ
2024-12-04T00:00:00Z
$
The date command can parse quite a lot of date formats, ...
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using gnu date to set a time and format and subtract
Can I give GNU date a date and format string for that date and tell it to also subtract some time from it? It seems I can do 2 of 3 in 1 command but not all
I have this date format:
09/Sep/24 05:02 AM ...
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Convert EPOCH string in filename to readable format
My knowledge of Unix is not very good.
I'm trying to write a shell script to rename a set of files in a directory, like 1709532255.mp4 to 20240304_070415.mp4, where 1709532255 is always an epoch time.
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What's the KISS-way of turning format '1000 days' into format 2 years, 9 months, 0 days' within bash & shell scripting?
What's the "Keep It Simple" way of turning a format such as '1000 days' into format '2 years, 9 months, 0 days' within shell scripting?
I've thought of applying modulor or floor rounding. I'...
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Update any date to the current date in a text file
I have a text file which contains several occurrences of dates. All the dates are written in the format Mon-DD-YYYY. I have to update all these dates in the current date keeping the format Mon-DD-YYYY....
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Output date into specific column using bash
I want to output the date into a csv column using a bash script ignoring the header. I have this but it only gives the day of the week abbreviated and not does not place it in a specific column:
date |...
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Compare multiple date & time in shell script
I have below output with jq command , where I want to compare all the date & time and tell which is the latest one
Mon Feb 20 09:22:25 2023
Mon Feb 20 17:42:13 2023
Thu Mar 2 05:55:07 2023
Tue ...
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How to change the modification date (The Metadata) of multiple files?
I have a gallery folder with multiple images and videos, some of them has their modification date correct, and some of them has the month wrong.
I want to make a script that will change all the files ...
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Script - Compare filename date with current date
I'm trying to compare a file with date in its name to the current datetime of the system:
Filenames are with the following format:
FileName.yyyymmdd.hhmm.file (e.g. File156tr.20220914.0958.txt)
I have ...
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Given a weekday name, week of a month, and a year, how to find the date
I can find the last Monday using date -d 'last-monday' +%F but given a weekday name, week of a month, and a year, how to find the date?
e.g. given: Monday, Week 4, June, 2022
output: 2022-06-20
given: ...
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What's the POSIX-compliant way to get the epoch timestamp in a shell?
I just noticed, that POSIX date doesn't seem to have the %s or %N format items. So I can't use those. What's an alternative, yet POSIX-compliant way to get the epoch timestamp in my shell script?
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Setting time zone in a kindle bash file
I've recently jailbreaked my kindle to make it a clock that shows a certain image for each minute of the day. I used the instructions mentioned in this article
https://www.instructables.com/Literary-...
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Subset of File between two dates, when some dates are invalid
I have come across several similar questions, but the solutions seem to be failing me, and I believe it is because I have some junk data in my file that is breaking my attempt to filter by time stamp.
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How to convert Linux date to another date format
I am getting date in one of file in the format "Fri Feb 25 16:07:17 UTC 2022" Which I want to convert it to "2022-02-25 16:07:17".
However I am able to do it using Python but its ...
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date string is not updating within while true; do loop
I have a simple bash script:
#!/bin/bash
enp="$(ip route | grep "192.168.1.1" | cut -d' ' -f 3)"
while true; do
vnstat -l -i "$enp" --style 4 --json | awk '{ print ...
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