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Craig Rants
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‎02-28-2002 07:39 AM

‎02-28-2002 07:39 AM

epoch date

I want to get the current epoch date, and place that into a variable, anyone know a command to do that?

Thanks.

Craig
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Steve Steel
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‎02-28-2002 07:43 AM

‎02-28-2002 07:43 AM

Re: epoch date

Hi


See
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x3d9b03bbece8d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html


Steve Steel
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Helen French
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‎02-28-2002 07:44 AM

‎02-28-2002 07:44 AM

Re: epoch date

Hi Craig,

This may help you:

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=7cd4dd5d12c8c4f7a9/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055892354

HTH,
Shiju

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Helen French
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‎02-28-2002 07:46 AM

‎02-28-2002 07:46 AM

Re: epoch date

Hi Craig,

Also this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x3d9b03bbece8d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

HTH,
Shiju

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Robin Wakefield
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‎02-28-2002 07:52 AM

‎02-28-2002 07:52 AM

Solution

Re: epoch date

Hi Craig,

VAR=`perl -e "print time"`

should do it.

Rgds, Robin.
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Craig Rants
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‎02-28-2002 08:28 AM

‎02-28-2002 08:28 AM

Re: epoch date

Thanks, I used Robin's post it was easy...
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