How to trick a particular command into thinking it is a different date?
How can I execute a command making it believe that is on a different date than system one?
date
How do I add X days to date and get new date?
I have Linux ( RH 5.3) machine
Date validation in shell
I want to validate the below date format in shell script
Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
We’ve noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message
Cron entry for last Saturday of every month
I want to schedule my script for last Saturday of every month.
I have come up with the below:
How does the “1 month ago” option in date command work?
I’m not sure if this gets the past date within the current day or if it only takes 30 or 31 days to it.
Extract date from a variable in a different format
Let me explain you the problem
Fast way to build a test file with every second listed in YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS format
I want to create a large test file with lines containg dates listed by the second, but my method is taking inordinately long… (or at least, that’s how it feels 🙂 … 43 minutes to create only 1051201 lines. 20.1 MB file….
Bash – date, working around the 2038 bug on 32bit LINUX system
I wrote a little bash script that made me stumble across the “Year 2038 Bug”. I did not know about this problem before and I just dare on posting the --debug output I got from date when my script tried to calculate across this magic date (03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038).
Is it possible to reference the most recently modified file in a command line argument?
I frequently download PDF files with heinous numeric file names from my browser. These automatically go into ~/Downloads. Ideally I would like to just be able to open these files with: