Date Manipulation

[Fuad_1]

Hi,

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

Thanks.

[twang]

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

[twang · Accepted solution]

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

[Fuad_1]

Tnaks, it is working.

[Fuad_1]

Thanks.