Seconds since the epoch

[columb]

I writing a script which uses dates, and in particular the number of seconds since the epoch. I could use

$(perl -e 'print time')

but I dont want to invoke perl every time I want the current value. I've looked at date (AIX 5.1 version) and that doesn't have an appropriate flag.

Any suggestions?

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Columb Healy

 

[RodKnowlton]

You could write a C program to print epoch time, or you could write the script in perl, thereby reducing the invocations to one.

- Rod


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