Hi, there are several parameters for the date command for example: [tty15][Dreamland:~]$ date +"%H %M %S" 15 21 09 [tty15][Dreamland:~]$ date +%r 03:21:20 PM [tty15][Dreamland:~]$ for moe info see the manpage of date. Is it this, that you were loking fore ? ;-)
grtz Peter Durieux On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:44:42 +0200 (CEST) > From: Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: stream manipulation with time > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi, > > I have two computers and I want to set the time on computer 1 the time of > computer 2 minus 1 (I need this because I run root over nfs, and I do > not like 'modification in future' warnings). I played along with some > commands and it seems that something almost works (and when it works, > 'date' will be replaced by a 'rdate' syntax): > > date | cut -c12-14 prints the hours > expr `date | cut -c15-16` - 1 takes the minutes minus 1 and prints it too > date | cut -c17-19 prints the seconds > > What would be nice if these three could be put on one line, like: > > date --set `date | cut -c12-14``expr `date | cut -c15-16` - 1``date | cut > -c17-19` > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > The problem is the nested `` here: > > Is there someway to bypass this, or a better method to do this so I only > have to call 'date' once? > > Of course I could write a script, echo the three expressions to a file and > do a: date --set `cat /tmp/time` > but I like more elegant methods. > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastiaan > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
