topic Re: Date Manipulation in Operating System - HP-UX

Date Manipulation

Fuad_1 — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 23:28:39 GMT

Hi,

How I can subtract minutes from the current time value and assign the result to a variable?

Thanks.

twang — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:07:57 GMT

# date +%X | awk -F: '{x=$2 - } {print x}'

twang — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:11:25 GMT

more..
assignment the result to variable:
# Y=$(date +%X | awk -F: '{x=$2-10} {print x}'); echo $Y

Fuad_1 — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:31:14 GMT

Tnaks, it is working.

Fuad_1 — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:32:24 GMT

Thanks.